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Word: ganged (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cell's penalty late in the final period of the Dalhousie game enabled the visitors to gang up for the winning goal by Alex MacSween at 17:54. Four times the varsity had come from behind to tie the game, as center Bob Cleary scored three times and assisted twice. The final score...

Author: By Charles Steedman, | Title: Varsity Sextet Loses Four Games To Top Canadian, Eastern Teams | 1/5/1956 | See Source »

...before his wife even realizes that she is free; last week, under treatment in the hospital at Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines, she was reported to be "periodically aware." Said Missionary Bradshaw: "I have just as much love for the Chinese people as ever, but for the gang that kidnaped us I have nothing but loathing and contempt." The gang seemed well pleased with itself. The Bradshaws, said Peking's Red Cross smugly, had been released "with leniency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Communist Leniency | 1/2/1956 | See Source »

...murderers, sobbed Broady, were members of Al Capone's old Chicago gang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIALS: The Line Was Very Busy | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

...things?'' the girl asks. "Because they don't want hard enough," answers the grownup. What Lovejoy wants more than anything in the world is a garden of her own, as rare in Catford Street as a tree in Brooklyn. By hook and by crook she starts one, but a gang of the neighborhood's teen-age toughs stomps it out. The leader of the gang, a rough-hewn Irish Tom Sawyer by the name of Tip Malone, makes his private peace with Lovejoy, and pretty soon she is his Becky Thatcher. The children start a new garden by carting away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Personal Publisher | 12/12/1955 | See Source »

...bier borne by Stalin. Molotov, Voroshilov and other top commissars. It was cautiously given out that he had died of heart failure, but rumor has consistently said since that he was murdered. In Russia his name became symbolic of the wreckage done to Soviet economy by Stalin and his gang in their struggle for power. Last week the Soviet government (run by Stalin's heirs) confirmed that Commissar Ordzhonikidze had indeed been murdered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Whodunit, Party Style | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

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