Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American can stand to one side while his country becomes the prey of fearmongers, quack doctors and barefaced looters. He doesn't twiddle his thumbs while his garden is wrecked by a crowd of vandals, and his house is invaded by a gang of robbers. He goes into action . . . by getting into politics-fast and hard. I'm in politics just that...
...time Adam got to the Salinas Valley, he had done two hitches in the Army, bummed around the country as a tramp, escaped from a Florida chain gang. and picked up a lot of humility. He also brought to California half his father's considerable fortune and Cathy, a beautiful blonde wife...
Catalog of Crime. Each gang developed its own specialty. The Kabutri Nats, famed for their beautiful women, operated as dancing troupes: while the women danced, the men and children frisked the audience. The Bauriahs became confidence men: disguised as sadus (holy men), they duped pious Hindus into parting with their hoarded valuables. The Barwars specialized in brazen daylight thievery, expelled members who stooped to night operations. The nomadic Panjaros rustled cattle. The Harnis forced their women into prostitution and rolled the customers; when the heat was on, they usually beat it disguised as fakirs, often taking a leper along...
...press had cornered an unhappy Nichols, and had forced him to admit that he had "worked on a construction gang," that his "weight was down to 224," his best playing weight, and that "the dropping of spring practice hurt." Finally the coach replaced the captain against the press...
With their two pieces of earth-moving equipment, a foundation gang last week pushed a rough track (see map) through the jungle at the rate of half a mile a day. The foundation's goal is a road running 1,100 miles across the Amazonian basin to Manaus, and linking the river by land with Brazil's industrial metropolis of Sáo Paulo, 1,700 miles to the south. Flying over five emergency airfields that foundation men have opened along the way with their machetes. Brazilian air force planes next week will start the first scheduled...