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Word: ganging (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...subway?" Duke Custis, a knife-scarred hard case at 14, knows well enough where the Atlantic is, even has a vague notion that Europe lies somewhere beyond Coney Island. But the boy's world is the three-or-four-street patch of roach-rich jungle ruled by his gang-the Royal Crocadiles, of whom Lu Ann is a one-girl ladies' auxiliary. The few streets beyond are prowled by a rival pack known as the Wolves; the rest of the planet is terra incognita. Duke is a big man in his neighborhood, where people are divided into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jungle Book | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

...Watching." Mother Rose Hovick was a divorcee and frustrated actress who hustled her daughter June to Hollywood at the" age of three, landed her in Our Gang comedies as the hungry-looking waif, got her to weep in the sad scenes by whispering, "Darling, your dog has just been run over." When Dainty June was four, Mother whipped up a vaudeville song-and-dance for her, gave a lesser role to sister Rose Louise (who later became Gypsy Rose), added a chorus of little boys, who often "had very little talent because Mother didn't expect to pay them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VAUDEVILLE: Saga of Dainty June | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

...exhibits, the Czechoslovakian inspired Ike with the greatest animation. Wagging his head, he discussed with Ambassador Miroslav Ruzek the thing that had impressed him most on his postwar trips to Prague: "There were more good-looking girls there,"he grinned. "Good-looking-no question about that. Really a gang of girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Reflections of a Spirit | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

...first day at school, Jim's class pays a visit to a planetarium, which the gang decides to make the scene for a little action. Buzzy, stereotyped black-jacketed levi leader of the mob, goads Jim into a switchblade duel. (Stark has a paranoic aversion to being called "chicken") But merely proving himself in this daytime version of kicks is not enough; society demands more...

Author: By Richard E. Ashcraft, | Title: Rebel Without a Cause | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

From abnegation of responsibility it is but a small step to abnegation of moral standards. A Council treasurer absconds with the funds; athletes gang up on town youths and beat them up; a candidate for office buys votes from a neighboring school. With the former "representative" now interested only in himself (and athletes are a curiously unique kind of representative) and with no one to answer to but himself, many sorts of actions are possible...

Author: By Richard N. Levy, | Title: Student Representative: Academic Alienation | 4/17/1959 | See Source »

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