Word: ganging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will erupt over President's power to accept or reject recommendations by Tariff Commission. At issue is recent vote by commission calling for import quotas on clothespins. President Eisenhower has twice before turned down such recommendations, but if he refuses a third time, protectionists in Congress threaten to gang up, strip him of "peril-point" veto in tariff cases...
...compiled source material. The piece by Richard L. Evans and Kenneth S. Bennion on "The Mormoms" is possibly the best very short history of the early church. James D. Horan in his "The Gunmen" has the good sense to know that the "Wild Bunch" was the fiercest Western outlaw gang and to spend his time relating their story but he makes factual mistakes in the story of this magnificent group, who died under attack by a whole company of Infantry...
...stand trial promptly on charges of perjury and wire tapping. And in Washington, 13 rank-and-file union members were awarded a preliminary injunction preventing Hoffa and his newly elected fellow officers from assuming their new jobs. If the plaintiffs win their suit and prove that the Hoffa gang was illegally elected, new elections, supervised by court-appointed officials, will probably be ordered. By that time, James Riddle Hoffa might not be available for candidacy...
Everybody in a whole cell block Was dancing to the jailhouse rock . . . [Mumble, mumble] crash, boom, bang, The whole rhythm section was a purple gang...
Ribbon-Happy Pols. The Arab fanatics are the terroristic fellaghas who have converted every isolated colonial's farmhouse, every road, every French-employed work gang into a guerrilla front line. A bout of fellagha Mau-Mauism periodically drives the local European population into a frenzy. Whole villages go on "gook-hunts." Says Servan-Schreiber: "The police and the army are helpless ... so they let the wave pass, hoping that the Arabs are not fools enough to stay out of doors. In a small town, by the time the fun is over, there will be two or three of them...