Word: gangly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hacking knives). At least two died, and the hospitals were jammed with injured. The Mercedes car of ex-Justice Minister Ortona Chirwa was burned by Banda men, and Chirwa himself escaped into the bush. The home of Chief Chokawi, a Banda supporter, was sacked and razed by a rebel gang...
...them puts it, "We've never been a group sitting around a round table reading manifestoes to each other." Resisting each other's styles, as well as the collective palsmanship of their predecessors, they are a selectively chummy lot, like the old Tenth Street gang that was ennobled and enriched as the New York School. Of a score or more of acknowledged London comers, an artist's dozen have aroused international interest and will be shown in the U.S. this season. Among the best (see color pages...
...public schools. He went to Dartmouth, where he graduated in 1953 with an A.B. in psychology, and then went on to City College, where he earned an M.A. in chemistry by 1955. After a few years teaching mathematics and science in Harlem while spending his nights as a street gang worker for the New York Youth Board, Day started full-time social work...
Last January all the Arab nations enthusiastically agreed to shelve their own disputes and gang up on Israel...
...other men. Presenting him with the Society of Chemical Industry's Perkin Medal in 1943, American Chemical Society President Thomas Midgley Jr. couldn't help recalling an 1895 picnic in Beaver Falls, Pa., where both he and Wilson were born. Midgley was being bullied by a gang of "incipient hoodlums." Up came Mrs. Wilson with two-year-old Bobby. "Kick the naughty boys," commanded mother, and Wilson kicked. "Everybody laughed, including me," reported Midgley. "The operation was a huge success...