Word: ganging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...racing shells glided to the starting line on the Thames last week, the Cambridge coxswain alerted his crew with the traditional British command: "Come forward . . . Are you ready . . . Paddle!" From the Oxford shell sounded a crisp "Okay, gang, let's go!" For the first time in its 97 years of racing Cambridge, the Oxford crew had a U.S. cox: spectacled, 21-year-old George Alexander Carver (Yale...
Coxswain Carver's gang tried hard. But they didn't go very far. The favored Cambridge crew skimmed off to a six-length lead in the first half-mile of the horseshoe-shaped 4¼-mile course. The heavier Oxford shell, fighting the choppy, flooded stream, began shipping water from the start, soon swamped and gurgled to a stop...
...Well-Charactered Man. In 1951's gangland, many of the faces are survivors of the death-ride days of Prohibition. But IQSI'S gang lord no longer swaggers about escorted by squads of dark-coated goons with bulges under their armpits, nor is he openly followed by a string of expensive tarts. His clothes are no longer flashy; everything's gotta be in good taste. He is a homebody. He lives comfortably but not fabulously in a respectable neighborhood, contributes to charity, hobnobs with cafe society, is a friend to politicians, sends his children to summer camp...
Manila's waterfront used to be run by a combination of the tough Union de Obre-ros Estivadores de Filipinas (U.O.E.F.) and certain employers and politicians who played ball with U.O.E.F. The union capataces (work-gang leaders) collected money from the shippers, paid off the workers themselves. In the days when there were as many as 25 ships in the harbor, the capataces' rake-off amounted to $25,000 a week...
...charges of car-stealing and shop-breaking: "I didn't want to steal cars, but I didn't have no transportation to get out in the country and rob stores at night, so I had to steal cars fo get to my jobs." In Elwin, 111., a gang of men in three automobiles and a truck pulled up to an appliance store, spent two hours looting the place, politely told the manager's wife before making off with her jewelry and $3,500 in cash and assorted appliances: "We have to do this. This is our business...