Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eric Partridge (Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English] refers to the "lively, rough but not criminal Houlihan family in London, 1895," also "a gang of roughs led by one Hooley...
...pros play better and more complex football than even the best college teams, they also play rougher. "We play rough and we teach rough," says Lion Coach Buddy Parker. "And when I say rough I don't mean poking a guy in the eye. I mean gang tackling-right close to piling...
...long history and its conquest by Lucanians and Romans were well known from classical literature, and its walls and colonnades have impressed tourists for centuries, but not until 1951 was there a serious attempt to find what lay beneath the surface. Then Professor P. Claudio Sestieri and a gang of laborers set to work (TIME, Sept. 6). From tombs came vivid paintings on stone of household scenes and fighting gladiators. Last summer Sestieri uncovered a small, completely buried building, made a hole in its roof and lowered himself into the stagnant dimness. He was in the central shrine of Hera...
...Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas' book of essays on America's heritage, pitted a group of townspeople against a stranger with "radical" ideas. Frightened when they discover that time is standing still as a result of their mistreatment of the stranger, a few try to gang up on the intruder only to find that time moves backward with each infringement of another man's rights. At length, they realize that the day is Dec. 15, the 163rd anniversary of the signing of the Bill of Rights. When they repent, time, once again, moves ahead. Reginald Rose...
Agnew was not the only victim, for the Crimson gang tackled all afternoon. It was as if Line Coach Schmitt, End Coach Joe Maras, and Backfled Coach Josh Williams had a bet to see which could produce the most tackles. Fortunately for Harvard, and unfortunately for Princeton, the bet came out a draw...