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Word: ganging (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...police figure they have to make an example of the ten in order to hold back the tourism being spread by a gang of more than 4000 sharp-shooters--including hundreds of gun-molls...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gun-Toters | 5/24/1950 | See Source »

...Binaggio-Gargotta gang, a potent force in Jackson County's corrupt Democratic political machine, had also operated, said the grand jury, a Kansas City gambling ring which had grossed as much as $34,500,000 a year. Its gambling enterprises included dice and card games ($19 million), numbers racket ($3,500,000), bookmaking on horse racing, baseball, football ($12 million). Among the Binaggio-Gargotta partners in the biggest crap game in Kansas City, said the grand jury, were Jackson County's Superintendent of Buildings Robert S. Greene, at week's end still on the job, and Assistant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: This Terrible Lawlessness | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

...Gang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, May 1, 1950 | 5/1/1950 | See Source »

...Dare was worrying about the spaceship Kingfisher en route to Venus, and Patrolman 49 was off to nab a gang of bank robbers. Seth and Shorty, out Texas way, were hard at work saving the cattle from a tribe of rustling redskins. A handsome young Jew named Saul of Tarsus was aiding & abetting the mob murder of another handsome youth named Stephen. All this was happening last week in the stories and cartoon strips of the spanking new London weekly Eagle, dazzlingly successful magazine brain child of a boyish, 35-year-old vicar of the Church of England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Magazine for Mugs | 5/1/1950 | See Source »

...Enemy Activity." Albania's Communist paper, Zeri i Popullit (Voice of the People), conceded that there had been a party purge. It scolded against "the Fascist gang in Belgrade, and, recently, the anti-party activities of Abedin Shehu . . . enemy activity inside our party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALBANIA: New Stooge | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

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