Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Britain's new High Commissioner for Malaya, General Sir Gerald Templer, intended that the people of Tanjong Malim should suffer. It was his way of punishing them for having failed to supply information about the Communist terrorists who had murdered twelve men of a pipeline repair gang near by (TIME, April...
...revolution of 1910, tells how the peons used to be duped into almost lifelong servitude on the big estates and timber properties. Like a man telling an enthralling tale to children, Traven describes the plain peasant, Candido, going off to the mahogany forest to join the slave-labor gang. As a fee-greedy doctor has let his wife die, Candido has to take his two little sons along: also with him are his devoted sister and three suckling pigs which, whatever their symbolic significance may be, are the most likable piglets in contemporary literature...
...connection with the family, the Gluecks feel strongly that American sociologists have grossly overemphasized the "group", gang, or cultural influences as the root causes of delinquency, shutting their eyes to the importance of the role of "family drama-affection relationships, disciplinary practices, the emotional tensions and other such crucially significant factors...
...another honor: the right to be the U.S. collegiate representatives in this summer's Olympics. The team blocking the path of Kansas' N.C.A.A. winners was, fittingly enough, Philadelphia's La Salle, winner of the recent National Invitation Tournament. In contrast to Kansas' one-man gang, La Salle is a five-man team of deft ball handlers and sharpshooters, though none of them matches Lovellette's scoring potential...
...trying to put us out of business, and you can't do it. None of your gang can." Thus growled old Banker A. P. Giannini at Federal Reserve Board Member Marriner S. Eccles three years ago, when the FRB opened hearings on charges that Giannini's Transamerica Corp. had monopolized West Coast banking...