Word: gangly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hold the cops at bay the artnapers had coolly let it be known that they possessed still a third trove of stolen paintings-57 works lifted last July in St.-Tropez. The St.-Tropez paintings had proved to be uninsured and hard to get ransom for, but the gang's threat to destroy them stopped police from interfering with the Cézanne extortion...
...interpreters wanted to be seen talking to the far-out stilyagi youths. Their reluctance, which they eventually overcame, seemed based less on fear than on social position. Reported Bell: "It was like a young Wall Street broker being seen on a tough street in Manhattan consorting with a rumbleprone gang." Bell found that Soviet young people are "furiously interested in everything and have opinions, some considerably distorted, on everything." They were polite, respectful and vigorous in setting forth their ideas...
...high crime rate. The impression lingers in the public mind that crime in the big cities is still the special business of organized mobs. Chicago got rid of Al Capone, but it cannot get rid of Al Capone's body. The fact that there were 15 gang-style killings in Chicago last year-an unusually high number-helps sustain the impression.* Actually, the Chicago police look on the rise in rubouts as a hopeful sign that the mob is in trouble...
...gang began operations in 1956 in the small island town of Mazzarino, site of a 200-year-old Capuchin monastery. One of its first alleged victims was Father Agrippino, whose evening prayers were interrupted one November night by a buckshot blast into the wall beside him. A few days later, Carmelo Lo Bartolo, the monastery gardener, trotted up to the friar, informed him sadly that anonymous scoundrels wanted $320 or they would aim better next time. Father Agrippino settled with the messenger...
...Soon the gang turned to better-heeled citizens of their own village. The local pharmacist ignored a series of neatly typed threats until his drugstore burned down; but he paid up ($3,200) when urged by Father Agrippino, accompanied by Father Vittorio and the venerable Father Carmelo (he is now 83). "I am a victim, too, dear doctor," Friar Agrippino declared. "If we don't obey, they'll kill...