Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Failure. Last week, as the disgraced cops paraded before his disgusted gaze, at the State Capitol, Colorado's Democratic Governor Stephen McNichols, a onetime FBI man, explained that the ring had sprung from a single group in the south Denver district. When gang members were transferred to other districts, new members were recruited...
...submission to classroom and homework. It means piano lessons, too-usually lonely sessions with a private teacher once a week. But for a fast-growing number of youngsters from 6 to 18, the once dreaded struggle with sharps and flats is now as lively as a trip with the gang to the soda fountain. Well, almost. The burgeoning category of "group" activities-from groupthink to group therapy-now includes the newest wrinkle in piano teaching: group plink. Items...
...underworld. At an all-night coffee counter in a Greyhound bus depot he meets a puffy-pretty alcoholic (Piper Laurie), huts up with her and, whenever he needs money, hustles suckers in low poolrooms where he is not known. One night he takes the wrong chump. Four wharf rats gang him and break his thumbs-a mythological emasculation if ever there was one. Soon after that-in part because the hero, in his pool-fool cuepidity, has neglected her -the girl lets her life out of her wrists. The hero's heart at last is touched. Redeemed by love...
Wirges and the Democrat carefully cased the situation before declaring war on the city-county machine-a fight for which Morrilton's other weekly, the Headlight (circ. 1,600), had no stomach at all. When Democrat editorials began hammering at Hawkins and his gang, Headlight Editor Earle Haynes maintained the courteous silence of a man who has been "selected" three times: once as city recorder, once as alderman, most recently as Morrilton mayor (to replace the incumbent, who resigned because of ill health...
...increasingly violent passion. The avalanche of sensuality starts when a bored wife has an affair with a young clerk on her old husband's household staff, and leads with chilling practicality to a murder, then to another and another; and the story ends in a convict gang en route to Siberia as the wife pulls a rival down to joint death in a river...