Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Prince of the City, the investigative process is shown to be a brutal affair. In the Untouchables it is celebrated. As the Ness gang attempts to draw a confession from one of Capone's men, they shoot a dead body in the view of the captured assailant. The man is terrorized into confessing. The audience invariably cheers, for the good guys have won. Never mind if such tactics raise serious questions about the rights of the arrested...
...President probably meant the old Federal City Club, rendezvous of White House correspondents for hilarity and bad food. After another of those miserable Ziegler briefings, the gang would trudge across Lafayette Square giving the anatomy of Andrew Jackson's rampant bronze horse an insult or two, then pull up in the club dining room and on evil days have a martini, maybe two. About then our natural leader, Peter Lisagor of the Chicago Daily News, would shout, "Okay, boys, let's cut 'em up." There followed golden hours of bombast, insult, vituperation and disparagement aimed at Presidents, editors, academics, clergymen...
...economics in 1974. He and his wife Alva, who died in 1986, four years after being named a Nobel Peace laureate for her tireless advocacy of nuclear disarmament, helped design the Swedish welfare state. Nonetheless, Gunnar Myrdal in 1980 charged that excessive taxation was "turning Swedes into a gang of hustlers." A man of perplexing contradictions, he wrote early in his career, "Human beings are good; we can improve conditions through reforms," but later decided, "The world is going to hell in every possible...
...soft-spoken artist was inducted into the Cartoonists Hall of Fame for 37 years of his Peanuts comic strip, which is carried in some 2,000 papers in 36 countries. Schulz is characteristically reflective about the enduring popularity of Charlie Brown, Linus, Lucy, Snoopy and the rest of the gang. "They're nice little kids," he explains, "not overly sweet -- people you can live with day after day." Nonetheless, Schulz bridles at critics who suggest that the strip has gone stale in recent years, insisting, "It is better drawn, and it has more depth than ever." What's more, Schulz...
...case of Donnie Wayne Snell, a motorcycle-gang enforcer wanted for shooting a Texas highway patrolman, Deputy Marshal Ed Stubbs used the Scorecard system to predict where Snell was heading. A deputy sheriff in Montana said that he had seen someone matching Snell's description driving through town with two other men. Stubbs went to a map, drew a radius around the spot and figured the men had to be heading for Casper, Wyo., or Rapid City, S. Dak. He put out leads to law officers in the area, who started watching the roads. Reported sightings were relayed to Stubbs...