Word: ganging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Darby picked about 80 key Republicans and set to work on them, sounding them out on a stop-Taft movement and incidentally talking up Ike. In their conversations, they heard fears that if Taft is elected President, the party will be wholly captured by a new "Ohio gang" of hard-shelled regulars with a bent toward isolationism...
...with emphasis on Russia's peace-loving efforts to bring about a truce; 2) attacked the West as usual for warmongering and plotting aggression against Russia. Most ominous note: a sharp attack on Tito's Yugoslav regime. Cried Molotov: "Realizing that the Yugoslav people hate this hired gang of criminals who stole its way to power, the Tito regime holds itself in power by bloody terror. This cannot continue long. The peoples of Yugoslavia will find a way to freedom and liquidation of the Titoist Fascist regime...
...party. But it depends on whether you consider the party of the first part or the party of the second part after getting out the current issue of the Lampoon. It was pretty gay the night we put the last page of the old rag to bed. The whole gang returned from Bar Harbor--without tans, of course, except for Joe Klowernig who somehow always managed to do the wrong things. Not that he wasn't a nice guy, but Joe somehow didn't seem to fit in. As the party went along (I guess we'd call...
...Nazis and their perpetual Communist manhunt, Wollweber actually thrived. One of the few party leaders who neither fled into exile nor fell into the Gestapo's hands, he installed the Communist cadres underground and kept them operating. Often the Gestapo breathed down his thick bull neck. Once a gang of Danish Nazis working for the Gestapo kidnaped him off the streets of Copenhagen, but the Danish police intervened and set him free...
Little Men, Big World, by W. R. Burnett. Fast-moving gang novel by the author of Little Caesar (TIME...