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Word: gangly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...remarkable sympathy and understanding. The London Daily Express, often anti-American, cheered: "British people give their support to Kennedy." In Canada, the Calgary Herald wrote: "The United States has shown the utmost forbearance toward that unfortunate country ever since it fell into the hands of the Castro gang." Said Rio de Janeiro's O Jornal: "This invasion is the beginning of the movement to restore to democracy the Cuban revolution, betrayed by Fidel Castro and his Communist gang." Remarked a high-ranking Venezuelan official: "Kennedy is not crazy or stupid. Every country has the right to give its sympathy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Sympathy & Dismay | 4/28/1961 | See Source »

Before long, mother and daughter are half in love with the same shy young intellectual (Jean-Paul Belmondo), the son of a local tradesman. As the Germans retreat, they eagerly start back to Rome, but on the way they are captured and raped by what looks like a gang of goums, wild mountain fighters from French Morocco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Fine Italian Ham | 4/28/1961 | See Source »

...group posted a large sign in an eleventh-story window of Leverett House saying, "We Want Latin," and a Kirkland House gang of 40 vowed to wear Madras jackets at Commencement--to break down archaie traditions...

Author: By Robert E. Smith, | Title: Pusey Remains Firm on Diplomas | 4/26/1961 | See Source »

...enact a primeval war dance; shebeen Delilahs strut their stuff in the sinuous dance of the patha patha (touch, touch). Racy, swinging rhythms interweave tribal chants, European liturgical music and 1925 Dixieland stomps. Such certified-hit solos as The Earth Turns Over alternate with pennywhistle blues and a road gang's traditional chant. Wrote Critic Bernard Levin in the Daily Express: "Certainly the show lacks the fine cutting edge that the Americans grind onto their musicals. But the more sophistication, the less vitality. And King Kong triumphs in the end by its bursting, smoking, glowing life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater Abroad: Cry, the Beloved Country | 3/3/1961 | See Source »

...cashiered out, all out of cash. Guaranteed ?100,000 apiece, these amiable scalawags form an unregistered corporation called "Cooperative Removals, Ltd." From there out, the picture becomes simultaneously a sort of rollicking Rififi and a hilarious parody of the last skaty-eight milidramas from Blimey. The major organizes his gang as a commando, runs it by "Queen's Regs," soon whips together a unit that makes up in morale what it lacks in morality. "England," says the colonel proudly, "always supplies the right man for the job. Even if it's the wrong job." Along the sound track...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Felonious Fun | 2/24/1961 | See Source »

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