Word: gangly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...struck his tough stance. Without wasting any time mumbling about the strikers' demands for black studies deparments, Hayakawa said that order was his goal. He was going to keep that college open. He would break the strike. And he was not about to let a "violence-minded gang of anarchists, terrorists, and Communist-inspired conspirators" keep his school from operating...
WHAT FRIGHTENS us about King Collins and his gang are not their ideas--which are interesting to a point but hardly new. We fear him personally because of his irrationality, and his careless imposition. He has easily demonstrated the immediacy of his disruptive exploitive tactics. We feel trapped because the only ways to deal with him are ways we despise--police, arrests, anger, hate...
...they have made us, even those of us most enthusiastic at the outset, reflect on the kinds of thoughts that really do threaten us, things we abhor considering. Thoughts of preserving the system--where classes and dormitory rooms are open to anyone--instead of changing it. Mr. Collins's gang says if kids don't want them in class to "get involved" and "make" them leave. But we don't like to be forced into police committees. We catch our talk of "outsiders" and "disruption" and it reminds us of all the things we have fought against...
...people who took King Collins's dialogue seriously were Professor Inkeles and a student named John Henry, who invited Collins to Eliot House last weekend. Both finally called the police to get rid of them. King Collins and his gang have brought out in us the vigilant spirit--with all its anger and fear. I know they have freed nobody. I hope they haven't imprisoned us either...
...Bomber who sends opponents flipping over the guard rails with one twitch of her mighty hips. As her bumpy, bruised knuckles attest, she can be equally menacing with an uppercut ("I can't keep a long nail," she says). She takes her lumps too, most often from a gang of Braves led by pert Marge Laszlo, a nine-year Derby veteran who has had plastic surgery to remove the scars from a twice-broken nose...