Word: ganging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...undermining this nation." But the arrests of pro-Nasser suspects continued with monotonous regularity: 27 Jordanians were standing trial for smuggling in guns and munitions from Syria, and several of them seemed certain to be publicly hanged; 20 others were swept up by the police as members of a gang of terrorists and bomb throwers. The clandestine radios screamed for Hussein's death; the Damascus newspaper Al Nasr al Jadid, jeered: "Jordan has turned into a huge prison...
...Tobacco Industry Research Committee: "The position of this country's cigarette industry is unchanged. Scientific evidence simply does not support the theory that there is anything in cigarette smoke known to cause human lung cancer." Added one insider: "O'Neil-Dunne is like the kid in the gang who punks...
...vast reception rooms, six master bedrooms, baths where the water flows from gold faucets, and-a special convenience to guests with an urgent sense of privacy -a walled-in parking lot protected from the eyes of reporters who like to look up license numbers. In his own bathroom the gang chief likes to loll in a $10,000 tub carved. from a single piece of Mexican onyx...
...Bronze Age. Theseus' character, as Author Renault develops it, is much like that of a modern adolescent gang leader, ready at any moment for a rumble with the neighboring gang. This rings truer to the spirit of the Bronze Age than Theseus' self-conscious habit of consulting his destiny every 15 minutes like a watch. While the heroes of the classic tragedies inevitably yield to their fate, Author Renault's Theseus seems a proto-conformist in his anxiety to learn and submit to the will of the gods...
...high representation of the cell, basic unit of life, presented by Kalamazoo's Upjohn Co. Its shell was a fantastic latticework of clear plastic tubes. Inside were equally ingenious, sausage-shaped plastic gadgets representing mitochondria and fat globules. There was also a gaudy red nucleus, like a gang of tortured octopuses outdoing Laocoön's serpents, with centrosomes that made it look as though it had just landed from outer space...