Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reporting, 9:30 p.m. All is peaceful." This reassuring word came from the street outside 10630 South Bensley, where six cops sat in a tin shack, a hole in its roof covered by an old dishpan, warming themselves at a portable stove and ignoring the shrill profanity of a gang of teen-agers across the street. If Post No. 3 had reported trouble (as it sometimes did), hundreds of additional policemen would have been rushed to the scene. But this was a quiet night in Trumbull Park's seven months of racial conflict...
...rringer began with a simple idea: "No 'bad' boy is really bad." He saw the delinquents as victims of Nazi education, of war-torn marriages, of complacency and defeat. The children, he said, had been "derailed" by World War II. His first move was to herd a gang of 40 delinquents off to a soup kitchen instead of jail. There each boy got a meal, a pair of shoes, some clothes the judge had scrounged. Then they talked, not about crime or war, but about sports, music, dancing and books. The boys began to relax. They came back...
Tipped off that a mysterious gang of undergraduates was trying to peddle advance copies of his final examination for $30 apiece, Instructor Gilbert Geis of the University of Oklahoma decided that it would be only proper for him to crack the case himself. Last week he got one of his students to cooperate, told him to let it be known that he needed an advance copy of the exam and to get one of the culprits to deliver it himself. The trap worked: when the culprit arrived, both Instructor Geis and the campus chief of police were on hand...
...Detroit, school officials banned night games for high-school basketball teams after a gang of rowdy teen-agers cut and stabbed the star of one winning team, 18-year-old Ross A. De Boskey...
...Wild One has the disturbing shock of reality (it is based on The Cyclists' Raid by Frank Rooney, about a gang of motorcycle hoodlums operating in California in 1949), but its main purpose seems to be to shock. No one can doubt that the movies are highly skillful at picturing brutality and violence, but The Wild One suggests that Hollywood may be making too much of a bad thing...