Word: gangly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...outburst in the East New York section of Brooklyn last week. The catalyst was a menacing group of white men called the Society for the Prevention of Negroes Getting Everything (SPONGE). Their goading picket line, set up in a neighborhood that has been traditionally explosive because of racial street-gang rivalries, was an irresistible target for Negro bystanders. Fighting broke out and scattered gunshots crackled through the area, killing an 11-year-old Negro boy as he crouched in terror on a street corner. Rooftop commandos hurled everything from garbage to tire jacks at police and passersby...
...himself, displaying the alertness and concern that brought him a victory over a tired Democratic machine last fall, was on the scene during much of the worst of the rioting. He took time to call on the grieving family of the boy who was killed, talked coolly with street-gang leaders and SPONGE officials. Unknown to most New Yorkers was the fact that the mayor has been making tours of the ghetto areas ever since his inauguration last January. Before last week's violence, he strode one evening among the crowds of East Harlem, played the bongo drums with...
Arriving in Japan with four other U.S. Cabinet members to attend the fifth annual Cabinet-level conference of the two governments, Secretary of Labor Willard Wirtz, 54, and his wife Mary left the rest of the gang at the doors of their Western-style rooms in Kyoto's elegant Miyako Hotel and headed for the Japanese wing. Beds are all very comfy at home, but when in Japan do as the ... A thin tatami mat, please, and they couldn't be more comfortable stretched right out there on the floor. "It feels wonderful and is very good...
Beyond Lawsuits. It began one pitchy night when a brawny gang of eleven swarmed with catlike tread into the cabins of Radio City, one of the smaller pirate stations located in a renovated wartime lookout in the Thames Estuary. The marauders surprised the seven sleeping disk jockeys and technicians, who surrendered without a struggle and allowed them to cut the station off the air. Leaving nine men to hold the fort, their leader, Major Oliver Smedley, 54, a bemedaled World War II paratrooper, former Liberal Party vice president and director of twelve companies, sailed back to shore...
...London's docks, a forklift and three men can accomplish as much work as a 14-man gang once did; dockworkers have accepted forklifts, but still insist that the 14-man gang follow each truck around...