Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that guards simply let each group run its part of the jungle. Says one white inmate: "You can survive if you stay away from the brothers." Last month one white was cut across the face and chest by black prisoners wielding razor blades; another was raped by a gang of blacks...
...cast as a tough babe with hair and heart of gold, Farrell began her screen career as a gangster's moll in the 1930 film classic Little Caesar. She went on to wisecrack her way through scores of Hollywood movies, including I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932), Gold Diggers of 1937 and the Torchy Blane series. Weary of being typecast, she made a deft transition in the 1950s to motherly roles on television and Broadway...
...editors of the George Washington University Hatchet had only harsh words of welcome for the Mayday forces. "The 'give peace a chance' gang had their day last week and now they are gone," said a Hatchet editorial entitled "Forget It." "A new crowd is in town now . . . They have plans that we find disturbing, self-defeating and absurd...
...narrative changes completely. Marie is no longer the poor (but honest) farm girl, virgin down to the calluses on her bare feet. Now, openly contemptuous of her father's self-inflicted integrity, she has taken to sneaking off to the woodshed with Gerard, leader of an adolescent gang that rides around on motorbikes...
...only really atypical aspect of Daley's youth was the size of his family: he was a greatly cherished only child. In a milieu where family solidarity was a virtue (and a power source) prized even above gang loyalty, Daley thus suffered a certain limitation-until he married into the numerous clan of Eleanor Guilfoyle. As an officeholder, he consolidated his family position by exploiting the rich grab bag of political patronage on behalf of the Guilfoyles. As Royko observes, "Eleanor's parents might well have said that they did not lose a daughter, they gained an employment...