Word: ganging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wider field-school. Pockets bulging with Sawyerian equipment ("Fishhooks, twine, white alleys and other marvels, Barlow knives, jew's-harps, hunks of maple sugar, birds' eggs, potato guns, and perhaps a picture of Adam and Eve without a rag"), Sam was soon leader of the school gang and the bane of his teacher's existence...
...some of the hotter heads, who still wanted to give the Democratic spot on the ballot to the Republican nominees. Said James A. Mayfield of Bamberg County: "Senator Sparkman is just the sugar-coated candy to get rid of the rhubarb and calomel taste of Truman and the C.I.O. gang." But Jimmy Byrnes's plan, as is customary in South Carolina, was adopted...
...month period). After the birth of his only son he made a valiant effort to straighten up, and brought in honest Premier Hilary Pasha to purge the corruption that was endangering the government. But inevitably, Hilaly's probings led close to Farouk's palace gang, and the King dumped the honest Premier...
...Hard Institution. The Shah frowned. He knew that his 140,000-man army, poorly equipped, indifferently disciplined and mottled with disaffection, was not much. But it was all that stood between him and the Mossadegh gang-the National Frontists, the religious extremists, the street mobsters. Said the Shah carefully: "The army is a hard institution to run. I think that a general enjoying my fullest confidence should be nominated...
...epitome of insanitary sloth. He brings a shapely wife, who admires his Penthean principles but turns to lustier men for her Dionysian pleasures. Along with the Pettigrews have come a varied bunch of visitors, including a novelist in flight from the tax collectors, a journalist, a Greek professor, a gang of salmon poachers. And it so happens that the laird's lovely daughter chooses this moment to stage a village production of Bacchanals...