Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...daily papers are full of it. Bad kids. Burglary. Rape. Murder. The kids run in gangs. The Scarlet Cavaliers. The Shining Knights. They manufacture pistols, carry switchknives and use them. They are loyal to nothing except the gang. They rarely tell on each other. The reason for all this might be larger than children. In feudal law everyone was responsible for something. Every, member of the family was responsible for every other member. In the village this same responsibility obtained. If a child committed a crime his whole family was affected, even punished, and even if his father and mother...
...prone to consider such mutual responsibilities as savage and barbaric. But what have we substituted? Perhaps we have a longing for it. Maybe delinquency stems from just exactly this. The kids, not finding it at home and apparently needing it, build gangs to which they give their loyalty and their courage. They fight for one another, lie for one another, even kill for one another. Could this not be because it is the only thing they have? The ends of a delinquent gang may be wrong but there are virtues too. Virtues which find no exercise anywhere else. There...
Political Career: "Judas Tito and his abettors have transformed Yugoslavia into a Gestapo prison. The whole of progressive mankind looks with loathing upon those despised traitors" (Marshal Bulganin). "Spies and provocateurs" (Foreign Minister Molotov). "The fascist Tito's clique is a gang of British-American hired spies and murderers ... a despicable band of traitors and betrayers of their motherland" (Nikita Khrushchev). "The workers have long since discerned the vile and repulsive snout of the Belgrade deserter, hireling, spy and murderer, bankrupt fascist traitor." (Literary Gazette...
...Kaganovich adjudge him its "thinking" member. Identified in the past with the rise to power of both Khrushchev and Malenkov, and held in some trust by both factions, old Bolshevik Kaganovich is regarded as the chief advocate of the current "collective leadership," under which all the wary Kremlin gang can hang on to their lives and jobs if no one of them gets too strong...
...City, Neb., Ruth was singing in obscure Chicago nightclubs when she first encountered a Runyonesque character who called himself Colonel Martin Snyder. Actually, the colonel had been born Moses Snyder in a West Side slum, and the closest he had come to the military life was in the Chicago gang wars. Known familiarly as "The Gimp" because of a pronounced limp attributed to 17 shotgun slugs in his leg, Snyder soon proved his ability as a show-business Svengali. He married Ruth and managed her from dingy nightspots to nationwide popularity. But the incessant obbligato to her torch songs...