Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Winthrop House seniors were involved in a fracas with a gang of Boston teenagers outside the Savoy nightclub on Massachusetts Avenue late Thursday night. One undergraduate suffered a two inch gash under his chin, the only injury received during the minute long tussle...
...workers challenged Dodds to do a week's work on a construction gang but were turned down ("From what I've seen I should almost die of monotony"). So last week they offered him a "safe conduct" if he would meet them on a street-corner to debate his charges. Dodds went, encountered storms of abuse but not much logic. "You really ought to be in a circus and not a Labor M.P.," shouted one. "What was I doing?" demanded another. "You kept the flies off the tea," said Dodds imperturbably. Dodds refused their pleas to apologize...
Supermodern Island. Last week progress and change came to 11 Rue Scribe. A gang of builders invaded the old structure, gutted the ground floor and prepared to rebuild the entire six floors. Only the outside will remain the same. France's "Law on Historic Monuments" jealously prohibits tampering with the building's traditional façade; city officials refused even to let American Express sandblast its grimy exterior lest this make the nearby grimy Opéra look even dirtier...
...father); Edgar Allan Foe's Marie Roget (Mary Cecilia Rogers, a beautiful clerk in a tobacconist's shop Poe patronized); Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Deacon William Brodie, by day a respectable Edinburgh town councilman who at night led a notorious gang of thieves and kept two mistresses). Most of them were interesting people; some were fascinating. But they all have one thing in common that distinguishes them from other human beings-their real lives seem to be those of ghosts, so illusory do they appear when set side by side with...
...difference in the two teams was most clearly demonstrated by the consistent varsity gang-tackling. The Crimson line swarmed over the Columbia backs most of the afternoon, while Jordan's runner repeatedly seemed about to break away, only to be brought down by single tacklers in the secondary...