Word: ganging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Socialism to hide the face of an agent of the bourgeoisie. He hoodwinks the British people, hinders the revolution of the British working man, and is in fact working in the interests of the British capitalists. He, with Mr. [Clement] Attlee, is just another one of the sly badger gang...
Chief Toohy suspects an organized gang of perpetrating the Harkness thefts. "They hang around the area, and when our policemen go past, they duck into rooms and swipe stuff," he said...
Organized Gang Sought...
...hacked a large hole for himself in the theatre world, and the Inn's Squire Pengallen is a character comfortably fitted within its boundaries. A bulbous villain with the dining habits of Henry VIII and the heart of Captain Bligh, the Squire lives in opulence while anonymously leading a gang of shipwreckers. Laughton makes him a polished old rogue, who cheerfully entertains his victims with superb and comically obvious hypocrisy...
...bitterly divided Cabinet (12 against, 13 for EDC), he reported sourly that France had been "dragged through the mud" at Brussels. This was a foretaste, Mendès said, of how EDC would work: instead of France controlling Germany, Brussels had shown that Benelux and Italy would "gang up" with the Germans to impose their will on France...