Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cardinal Segura's own Seville last week, a group of young Roman Catholics anticipated the cardinal's remarks with a more direct protest against toleration. A gang of well-dressed young men burst into the tiny, secluded Protestant chapel of St. Basil, struck Pastor Santos Martin Molin in the face, poured gasoline over the altar and tried to set the church afire. Said a Spanish government spokesman: "A negligible, isolated incident." In Madrid, a Protestant pastor brandished a pamphlet published by a Catholic organization, in which Protestants were denounced as "libertines, women of easy virtue and traitors...
...California's legislators were so mad at the Bee that they tried to shift the capital from Sacramento. Roared back McClatchy: "When it shall come to pass in this seagirt, sun-kissed and mountain-embraced State of California that a newspaper shall not open its lips against a gang which a misguided public have molded into legislators, then it is time that we make genuflection before them and lay our bellies low in the dust as they pass...
...conferences became a place to gang up on the Anglo-American press and sound off wildly about "outrages" it had committed. And while all the talking went on, nation after nation tightened up censorship and restrictions on the press...
...curb and spirited away. In Savannah, an estimated 150 meters were broken open and looted. In both cities, police voiced the dark suspicion that Dick Tracy himself, the fearless comic-strip detective, had inspired these petty robberies. The strip, which appears in some 350 papers, has been showing a gang of teen-age hoodlums at work yanking up meters and taking them to a remote spot to rifle them. Tracy's creator, Chicago Tribune Cartoonist Chester Gould, pleaded not guilty. Said he: "Most of the crimes that old Dick Tracy contends with are as old as police history itself...
...Union Army captain who settled down to run a coal and ice business. When he was 16, Wood was so small (5' 4") that his father gave him $10, sent him off to earn his living and toughen up. After nearly a year with a railroad surveying gang in Texas, Wood returned to Kansas City and won a competitive examination for West Point...