Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...likely to be a lone wolf or a member of a loosely knit mob with small resources, untrusting and untrustworthy, incapable of stable alliances with other criminals. The 20th century has seen an extraordinary shift to conspiratorial crime, which reached its first great flowering during Prohibition, e.g., the Capone gang. Some American gangs have maintained their continuity for a generation, enforcing discipline on their members and finding allies in respectable elements of the population...
Judging by precedent and by the measure of closeness of association with Beria and his gang, the next victims might well be Anastas Mikoyan, 58, the Armenian Minister of Internal Trade, and possibly Vyacheslav Molotov. Mikoyan brought Beria, "the worst enemy of the motherland," into the party fold. Molotov promoted Dekanozov, "an archtraitor...
...great founder, Joseph Pulitzer, brought on 17 libel suits in the first three years of the paper's life (but paid only $50 in damages), and John A. Cockerill, his managing editor, shot dead a gun-toting critic who invaded the city room and called the staff a "gang of blackmailers" (the police ruled self-defense...
...were 103 trapped crewmen, members of the A.F.L. maritime unions. Huddled against the pier were 20 pickets from the rival National Union of Marine Cooks and Stewards, abetted by 500 fellow members and allied union men from Harry Bridges' Communist-dominated International Longshoremen's Union. The Bridges gang, riled by the refusal of the Aleutian's owners to sign on members of their union (in defiance of local custom), were ready for a major dockside clash. Armed with clubs, pipes, knives and hammers, Bridges' men waited in tense silence, broken only by the eerie chant...
...women and children to Siberia by the carload. Separated from her husband, she spent 17 hungry, nightmarish days traveling eastward in a cattle car packed with 40-odd deportees, 15 of them infants. In Siberia she lived in a crude barracks, worked twelve hours a day in a construction gang...