Word: ganging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Singapore's British-trained police force of 5,000 went into action. While British troops garrisoned in Singapore mounted roadblocks in "purely coincidental military exercises," police swooped down on known Triad hideouts, within 48 hours had 60 gangsters behind bars. Lee plans to impose curfews on all known gang-dominated quarters of the city, to make the streets of Singapore safe to walk again...
...Auburn (3-1)-rain made its gang-tackling defense formidable...
...time the gang reached Victoria, they apparently had decided not to press their leapfrog luck too far. Leaving a fortune behind, they took only $28,000 worth of jewelry, and for the fourth and last time locked their doors behind them. Their record take: goods worth $700,000, chosen so judiciously for size and value that the whole caboodle would fit in a suitcase...
Though heavily populated Puerto Rico has little gang warfare and few juvenile delinquents, the Puerto Rican in Manhattan seems, from the headlines, to be responsible for a frightening wave of gang killing, drug addiction and thievery. Dissenting from this impression, and in fact seeing hope in the Puerto Rican migration, is the Rev. Joseph P. Fitzpatrick, S.J., a Fordham University associate professor of sociology. Last week at a conference in Puerto Rico of the National Association of Intergroup Relations Officials...
...peculiar plea for racial integration in the underworld. The hero (Harry Belafonte, who is also the producer) is a singer in a Harlem hotspot who signs on for a bank robbery to pay off his bookie. Unhappily, once he is in, he discovers that another member of the gang is a paranoid punk from Oklahoma (Robert Ryan) who would sooner risk the bundle than his sense of white supremacy. The punk calls the Negro "Brother Bones," and warns him not to "crap out" on the job. "Ah been handlin' [Negroes] all mah life. He's no diff...