Word: gangly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mixed into narcotics dealings that he might well have handled by remote control. In 1957 a Genovese dope peddler arrested in Manhattan got sore because the boss failed to come to his rescue with a bail bond and a lawyer. The prisoner got even by spilling the gang's secrets; two years later Genovese and fourteen other hoods were convicted of violating federal narcotics laws. The boss was sentenced to 15 years in prison...
...about the value of constructive news" and by studying the techniques of the News. The Mirror continued to reflect a rash of stunts calculated to hook the reader: Yo-Yo contests, picture puzzles, yards of crime coverage in an era when New York streets rang with the din of gang wars. By 1932, Mirror circulation passed 500,000. But the News passed...
...story of the involvement and disinvolvement of a Southern Negro gang leader in integration work with the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee...
Knight was known around Albany as a "gang leader." In the South, this implied nothing about jackets, a "turf," organized warfare or a hierarchical command, but meant simply that he fought hard, drank a lot, carried influence among his male peers in C.M.E. as the best among equals, and weilded genuine authority only over the age-group that rides souped-up bicycles and smokes cigarettes with great flourish. Quick, wild-grinning, tall and made taller by the brush of his untended process, he was working when he could, hustling what he could, living round the circle of his relatives...
...Georgia Tech's Billy Lothridge, 21, is a one-man gang. He runs, he passes, he punts, he kicks, he calls 80% of Tech's offensive plays, and, what's more, he beats Coach Bobby Dodd at his own game: pool. Small wonder that Dodd calls Lothridge "the most valuable player in college today." It was Lothridge who, singlehanded, cost Alabama the 1962 national championship, using his talented toe to get Tech out of trouble nine times with punts that averaged 41 yds. and calmly booting the extra point that sent Alabama down to defeat...