Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ever since Stalin's death, the Kremlin gang had been passing out a carefully blended mixture of honey and vinegar which seemed to signal a softening of Soviet foreign policy. The first clues to the new Communist policy were small and ambiguous. Last week, however, came two stronger indications of a new line...
Said a White House official later: "Certainly it was chilly. After all, Stalin's gang is shooting...
...Juvenile sex offenses are usually minor, with one notable exception: a few teenage youths use force, liquor or gang methods to subdue their victims...
Last summer Norman H. French of Casper, Wyo., water expert of the U.S. Point Four program, went into the desert with a gang of Arabs and some U.S. earth-moving equipment. Jordan gets some rain, but it usually comes in violent cloudbursts, and the hard soil sheds it like a slate roof. Instead of sinking in, the water roars down the wadies (dry washes) and is lost in the sand...
...singing snatches from Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, Gounod's Faust, and a chorus of The Volga Boatman. These latter-day artists offer an earnest approximation of the originals. David Wayne, using a vaguely Russian accent, plays Hurok as a kind of uncommercially-minded wet nurse to a gang of temperamental darlings. Veteran Hurok himself, now 64 and one of the shrewdest showmen alive, would undoubtedly be the first to admit that he has done as much as anyone to make an industry...