Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Delinquent life in Cambridge centers around the gang and the street corner. Driven out of the home by an unpleasant family situation, the typical Cambridge delinquent finds companionship and prestige as a member of the gang. Within the gang itself, he may also gain prestige as a leader. This post usually falls to the boy who can outfight his contemporaries...
...Each gang has a regular meeting place, usually at some corner store. The store serves as a communications center for the gang, for everyone usually stops by there at least once a day, and there are almost always one or two members around to pass on the word. On rainy days these places are jammed, as anyone who has walked past the corner of Mt. Auburn St. and Putnam Square can testify...
...almost unbelievable to an outsider just how much time the gang members spend loafing on the corner. "Some of the guys spend hours and hours and days and days on the street corner," one gang leader said. "Last summer, some of them would get up around 11 o'clock, go up to the corner, go back home when they felt hungry, go back up to the store until dinner, and return after dinner to stay till midnight...
...pair were part of a gang of 25 who snowballed firefighters at a recent blaze near the M.I.T. campus. To make matters worse, their snowballs knocked off a fire chief's hat and hit an aide...
...with His Head. Drawn up the gaping skidway by steel cables thrumming on giant steam-driven winches, the whale reached the broad afterdeck. A gang of workmen, wielding long-handled flensing knives, sliced off the thick blubber in foot-wide strips. The winches whined again and dragged the naked, bloody carcass 50 ft. farther along the slimy, slippery, half-iced deck to stage two. Here another flensing gang sliced off the meat. A neat, well-directed blow, as from an executioner's ax, severed the backbone at the neck, and the gigantic head (20 ft. long in an average...