Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Police, left without any solid clues, blamed it all on "Le gang des châteaux historiques" (the Historical Castle Mob). Fifty-six châteaux have been robbed since 1946, and none of the loot recovered. French police have a wholesome respect for "le gang's" professionalism in burglary and taste in art objects. They believe that many wealthy art collectors all over the world may have unwittingly purchased the stolen stuff...
...Property," in which Ferdinand and Isabella gave their Admiral the right to one tenth of all the spices and jewels he might discover. For another, she also did away with an age-old libel on Columbus' men, whom historians had long assumed to be no more than a gang of ex-convicts. Actually, only four were ever near a jail. "Aside from these four," says Alice Gould proudly, "none of my men was ever convicted...
Working over several dry seasons, Ruz and a gang of laborers slowly cleared away the hard mass of stone and clay that blocked the passageway. The stairs seemed to slant down endlessly. At the 46th step there was a landing from which two galleries, also blocked, led to the sides of the pyramid. They were apparently intended to supply ventilation...
...show of arresting four of the rioters, but also arrested at least one of the rioters' victims. "We don't know who they are," said Rhee's propaganda directors blandly of the troublemaking goon squad. But an American who saw the show recognized one of the gang's leaders as a member of the rough, tough police force of Rhee's Home Minister...
...Grass Roots." When the Ikemen raised the cry that the committee's action was more Taft steamrollering, Ohio's Representative Clarence Brown smoothly replied that what they were seeing was just the "grass roots" at work. Then he amplified: "When the Willkie crowd-the gang that's now behind Eisenhower-did this to us in 1940, they explained it was grass roots from the American people.* When the Dewey crowd did it to us . . . in 1948, they explained it was more grass roots. So what we've just seen is the finest grass roots...