Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kept the job for 20 years. He was a stocky, dark man with a round face, high cheekbones and thin lips. He never smiled; neither did he grumble. His bosses liked him because he was.always the first on the job, the last to leave. The other workers in his gang liked him too and called him gentil garçon (nice guy) even though he never joined them at the bistro. Giuseppe did not drink. He had no family and no friends. He had no girl-women frightened him. Nor did he have a God. His fellow workers called...
...Giuseppe's gang stopped repairing war-wrecked roads and started to build a new one, the Road of the Sea, running from Cros-de-Cagnes to Antibes. The Riviera was very gay again. Giuseppe settled his shack near the swank restaurant Rallye; at night he could hear the sounds of the jazz band...
...Long gang had been knocked out of the Statehouse in 1940-but not out of the state. Chep Morrison's own office is secure until 1950, but a reform administration never has an easy seat...
Despite his team's edge on paper, James MacDonald went along with his deceased countryman Robert Burns's observation that the best laid schemes o' mice an' men aft gang agley. "Comparative scores in soccer mean little," Mac-ventured yesterday, "adding that in the Yale game they mean nothing...
Outside the offices of Rio's Communist Tribune-Popular, the pavement was white with paper, littered with broken desks, smashed typewriters. Just three and a half hours after the Brazilian Foreign Office announced the diplomatic break with Russia, a slug-happy gang of rowdies had broken into the Tribunals plant. They whanged sledge hammers against the presses, later smashed up the editorial offices. Though the press room is only about 300 yards from Rio's central police station, the wreckers had the place to themselves for two hours. When a squad of military police showed up, the cops...