Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lonely Kenya ranch house some 60 miles north of Nairobi, Mrs. Dorothy Raynes-Simson, a cattle rancher, sat chatting with her partner, Kitty Hesselburger. There was a noise at the door, a shout, and a gang of Mau Mau thugs, led by the ranch's male cook, burst into the living room, brandishing panga knives. One man seized Mrs. Hesselburger by the throat, bent her across a chair; the rest set upon Mrs. Raynes-Simson, who grabbed her revolver, a handbag necessity for most Kenya white women these days, and blazed away. She shot two men dead...
...school term, the settlement house is still the best place for the kids to spend their leisure time. So popular is the Alliance, even among East Side roughnecks, that a threat to cut off membership is usually enough to keep young toughs in line. Seldom does a teen-age gang need what Director Murray calls "psychiatric limitation" (a hasty phone call for the cops...
...join the iron gang...
Author Clune gives 1880 as the date at which the authorities finally rid the territory of the bushranger. By then, Aussie folklore was solidly built around such romantic idols as Ned Kelly (it cost ?110,000 to capture him and his gang); Ben Hall (the bullet holes in his body reappeared, it was said, as birthmarks on his bastard son); Frank Gardiner, whom a sympathetic jury stubbornly refused to hang and who ended his days as a relatively peaceful San Francisco saloonkeeper...
Jacob Lewis, one of the gang who staged the Coop "smoke-bomb" robbery four years ago, was freed from State Prison yesterday. The state supreme court, upholding his appeal for a sentence of larceny, not robbery as originally given, took into account that he had already served the minimum four years, and gave him his liberty...