Word: gangly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Presence of gangs. "One gang goes out with weapons," he suggested, "and instead of fighting another gang, they break some windows in a store, and you have a riot...
...joins a reform party to put Chief Nanga and his grafters out of office. It ends in debacle. Odili is beaten nearly to death by the chiefs forthright constituents, and it is back to the village for him. But all is well. A military coup deposes Nanga's gang, and, with a more or less good conscience, the convalescent Odili is able to pay the "bride price" for the now redundant "parlor wife." He does it from party funds...
Assault on a Queen, written with a waterproof pen by Rod Serling, describes how a daredevil gang headed by Frank Sinatra, Tony Franciosa and Virna Lisi salvages a sunken German U-boat and uses it to stage a high-seas holdup of the Queen Mary. Despite the acknowledged cooperation of Cunard lines and the U.S. Coast Guard, most of the action appears to take place in a studio tank. When they are not scraping off barnacles or scrapping about sex, the actors group themselves in front of sea-blue projections and admit quite openly that their plan is insane, although...
During their brief rest stops, members of the walk tried to persuade hecklers to change their viewpoint about war. In response, they were hostilely disputed and often taunted. Said one teenager from Dorchester, "It [the war in Vietnam] is just like when you have a fight with a gang. They stab you and you want to stay them back...
...mayors of occupied towns, even gifted Vizzini with two large trucks. The Mafia used them to transport food in the biggest black-market operation in the South. Withal, the Allies breathed new life and spirit into the 900-year-old Mafia, the world's oldest and most infamous gang of hoodlums...