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Word: gangly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CHILDREN'S FILM FESTIVAL (CBS, 4:30-5:30 p.m.). Kukla and Ollie backed up by Burr Tillstrom and Fran Allison host Funny Stories, a sort of Russian Our Gang comedy about the adventures of two lively young boys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Feb. 16, 1968 | 2/16/1968 | See Source »

...have to let other people know what we're doing," says Grizzard, "and we also want to decentralize BDRG." In one week, BDRG spokesmen addressed the Dorchester Voice of Women, a teenage gang in Allston, students at Northeastern, and neighborhood groups in Providence, Waltham, and Bridgewater...

Author: By Jeffrey C. Alexander, | Title: How to Beat the Draft Legally (and illegally) | 2/12/1968 | See Source »

...marvelous storyteller. Very early in this rush of remembrance of a Brooklyn boyhood 30 years ago, it is clear that Gerald Green has let memory do all the work. His hero, Albert Abrams, is a skinny, precocious, unheroic kid who tags fearfully after a gang of asphalt Iroquois called the Raiders. The book follows Albert and his heroes-a splendidly underprivileged crew of dirty-cut young men-through a wild summer day in the Brownsville streets. The action begins with the formal curbside cremation of a dog's carcass-very satisfying to Albert, an Ironist-and ends with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Mist in Brownsville | 2/2/1968 | See Source »

After an exhaustive battery of tests in the last two weeks, doctors so far have found "no evidence of hemmorhage or permanent damage to the brain" as a result of the head injuries Vernaglia suffered in a January 14 gang beating in front of Kirkland House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vernaglia Is Removed From the Critical List | 1/26/1968 | See Source »

...school boy. Words have little meaning for him; he misreads reality and then forgets it anyway. His attempts at speech are usually glottal grunts. His writing is chicken tracks. There is only one coherent current in his life: his destructive fascination with Harold Hunt, "the ringleader of the hard gang" at school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Emotional Arson | 1/19/1968 | See Source »

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