Word: gangly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since such skull-popping potions are occasionally fatal and almost always produce violence, the harried police spend much time raiding the stills, breaking up gang battles and arresting drunks. Some 25% of all arrests and prosecutions in South Africa are for liquor offenses; last year 312,520 liquor cases went to court, including 1,602 arrests of Africans for possessing yeast without a permit...
...next night--April 28, 1961--a casual gathering around 7 p.m. developed into a yelling, chanting gang of 4,000 students, who marched through the streets and then camped in the Square. Cambridge police thought that the fun was over and decided that tear gas would send the boys home to their books. It did, Groaned a dean, "What a night!" Tension mounted, six students were thrown into paddy wagons, and the deans were "disgusted." Either before or during the furor, College officials searched through the records under "R" for suitable public statements on riots; later they quoted remarks that...
...undergraduate leaders are extremely important to the clubs, whose original gang structure often represents the only possible security for children whose parents and neighborhoods are derelict. Molly Taylor '62, president of PBH, described the violence with which a club reacted when the settlement house had to delay in assigning it a leader...
...Trouble in Swanson's Alley," written by a student at Rindge Technical High School, depicted the moral dilemma of two gangs, who were committed to fighting each other but weary of battle. "What I was trying to show," author Frank "Junior" Dempsey told a reviewer, "is how teen-agers are fixing their own problems up. You see, a lot of people would think that Pete--he's the one who squeals to the other gang to stop the rumble--well, a lot of people would think he's a fink. But he's only trying to help them...
...Hail, hail, the gang's all here! Here's the last of the party, just arrived! And d'ye see who it is? Father Hugh Kennedy himself, come back to us just to say hooray to an old man on his birthday! Ain't that lovely? Ain't that grand? Come in, come in, Father Hugh! Come in here and say a grand hello to all the old friends! Look at them: they're leapin' around like salmon at the sight...