Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gang of toughs burst into the home of 70-year-old George Geiger, a pro-German member of the Saarbrikken City Council, one night last week, and demanded to know whether he was in possession of "illegal pamphlets." When Geiger protested the invasion, he and his family were shoved about; two hours later, the old man died of a heart attack...
...days before the Allied breakout from Normandy in World War II, a Vichy government train was chugging through central France. Its freight: ten billion French francs (then worth $200 million) for the Bank of France in Limoges. At a tank stop the train was boarded by a gang of armed Maquis, who threw the moneybags into waiting trucks and disappeared into the night. When the Allies reached Limoges a few weeks later, they were feted by a bunch of exceptionally free-spending French partisans. Most freehanded of all was lusty, red-faced Colonel Georges Guingouin...
...climax finds Belle and her gang holding up the Oklahoma territorial bank. All the bad men are shot full of holes and Belle lies wounded in Brent's arms, secure in the knowledge that he will be waiting for her after she serves her jail sentence. Helping to make this horse opera practically indistinguishable from its numerous predecessors is the presence in the cast of gravel-voiced Andy Devine as a bearded itinerant trader...
Govind, of course, became a social outcast. Like most lepers in India he joined a traveling gang of his fellows, moved about the country begging and stealing. After the first shock wore off, he began to like the life. At times his band all but starved, but there were other times when the begging was good and the lepers had tremendous feasts. Author Simeon is at his best describing this weird life in which sudden death, plague and all sorts of violence are regarded as quite normal. He knows his leprosariums, too, and can make it clear why even intelligent...
Inevitably, the gang fell apart. Gino became a pervert and ended his life in jail. Carlo scrambled off to fight in Ethiopia and died for II Duce. Giorgio, the leader, became an antiFascist; it was he who taught Valerio that life meant more than the flashy nihilism of the Blackshirts...