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Word: ganging (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heart-stabbing enough for Los Angeles Dodgers Catcher Roy Campanella, paralyzed 13 months ago by auto-accident injuries, that his 15-year-old son David was declared a juvenile delinquent by Children's Court in Jamaica, L.I., for fighting in a furtive gang rumble. But worse followed. Released in the custody of his mother, David was driven to Flushing precinct headquarters, where police accused him of breaking into a drugstore with a white friend, stealing $9 and some cigarettes. When David confessed, Roy was crushed. "I tried to help as much as I could with juvenile delinquency, and here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 9, 1959 | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

...Tennessee legislature got set this week to pass a joint resolution asking the Internal Revenue Service to go easy on World War I's ailing one-man gang, Sergeant Alvin Cullum York, 72, long saddled with an income tax bill of $85,422 for royalties (claimed by York to be capital gains) earned from a 1941 movie of his life. Sympathetic taxmen hinted a settlement could be reached to let broke, bedridden Hero York keep his frame house, his mountainside farm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 2, 1959 | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

...call" of the song, grafted them on to the lyrics of a Civil War song, Oh! Freedom, and is presenting the results in an album called My Lord, What a Morning. He has recorded rum drinkers in Haiti, "things I heard with Memphis Slim and Lead Belly," a railroad gang in the Florida Everglades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEADLINERS: Lead Man Holler | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

...most folk dancing, the women were mostly decorative, while the men made the main contribution with dramatic jumps, a kind of rhythmical chain-gang walk, and a Charleston-like dance step. Scenes ranged from flirtatious rambles in the market place to formally styled initiation ceremonies. One episode, simply enacting the death of a man and a witch doctor's earnest attempts to save him, conveyed the feeling of real tragedy, accompanied by chanting as insistent and haunting as Ravel's Bolero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Hit from Africa | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

...halftime lead that it never relinquished. The Penn star hobbled through the first half and part of the second on a painful bandaged right leg before retiring for the evening, but the damage had been done. With 24 points and 23 rebounds, he had proved himself a oneman demolition gang...

Author: By Mark L. Krupnick, (SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON) | Title: Penn Mauls Varsity Five In One-Sided 73-53 Game | 2/28/1959 | See Source »

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