Word: gangly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dear old things has an inspiration that could lend vast new dimensions to the science of geriatrics: Why not organize a crime syndicate and devote the profits to a Worthy Cause? "Splendid!" cries the major, and in absurdly elaborate military detail he proceeds to plan an assault on the gang's first objective, a fur shop. Naturally, everything that can possibly go wrong goes as wrong as possible, but somehow the charitable criminals manage to creak home with half their haul-the other half is absentmindedly left in a taxi. Stumbling and bumbling from success to hilarious success...
...night when the wind off the lake blew the snow in killingly. I have seen American faces as I delivered newspapers, peddled vegetables, clerked in stores, waited on tables, washed automobiles, picked fruit, hosed down infected cadavers, shoveled sugar beets, iced refrigerator cars, laid rails with a section gang . . ." And so on and on, through the outline of a remarkable career...
...rubles in money and furs. One victim, finally, put in a timid call to the authorities, to ask if the night visitors were really official. Last week the "secret policemen" who had spread a little incidental terror from Moscow and Leningrad to Kharkov and Stalino were exposed as a gang of criminals and con men headed by one Leon Voskonian...
...trial in a Moscow district court, Voskonian and his gang got help of a sort from those they had robbed. Nina Ivanovna and her mother insisted that the stolen bag contained only 100,000 rubles, not 250,000. Furrier Aleksandrov estimated his loss at a mere 45,000 rubles and, at first, even denied owning a diamond watch shown him for identification. What the blackmailed Muscovites feared was revealed in the columns of Moskovskaya Pravda, which stated ominously: "We assume the Anti-Speculation Squad will try to clarify how the victims accumulated such large sums. Speaking plainly, it is hardly...
...that any reform movement would cut its size. Since two consecutive legislatures must pass constitutional amendments, action in that body is unlikely. An amendment legalizing the graduated income tax got past the last session, but next time reluctance to have new taxation and inertial resistance to change will probably gang up against this traditional bugaboo...