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Word: gangly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Douglas G. Carlston '69 of Kirkland House reported that the gang stopped him shortly before 10 p.m. Saturday as he crossed the parking area between Austin Hall and Littauer Center while returning from Hilles Library...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Mugged Near Austin Hall | 1/23/1967 | See Source »

Syrian-trained saboteurs exploded a mine in the midst of a soccer crowd at the Israeli village of Dishon. A 100-man gang of terrorists from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Syria: To the Left, March | 1/20/1967 | See Source »

...Well, kicks and,' he said more soberly. 'A little principle got mixed up in it somewhere--I tried to stop it, but it did. You see, I know the wicked flourish and all that; what kills me is the really crummy grade of wicked who flourish around here. This gang of shanty clowns has been playing the city like a slot machine for years. You can't sit still for that forever, can you? It's humiliating. It's like being goosed by the garbage man every...

Author: By Paul J. Corkery, | Title: ALL IN THE FAMILY | 1/20/1967 | See Source »

...gang members were vocationally talented; they drilled 48 holes to remove a panel in a stout oak door of the Dulwich College museum without tripping an alarm attached to the frame. Their taste in art was impeccable; they snatched eight old masters worth some $7,000,000, including three Rembrandts (among them the widely admired A Girl at a Window). What they had not figured out was who would pay them for their night's work. The college was heavily in debt, and in no position to afford a ransom. None of the works were insured, a fact that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: An Unprofitable Robbery | 1/13/1967 | See Source »

...gang's woes, the criminal underworld was less than patient with such a crime-especially when Scotland Yard began systematically raiding their haunts in a search for the paintings. Two days after the theft, a tip from the underworld brought police to an apartment where two Rembrandts and a Rubens were found under a bed. Another phone call-police theorize that this one was from the distressed gang itself-led them to a park, where they found the other paintings wrapped in newspaper under a holly bush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: An Unprofitable Robbery | 1/13/1967 | See Source »

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