Word: gangly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...squads of police grappled with leather-jacketed toughs, while chauffeured Bentleys delicately inched their way through. Wild-eyed girls with straggly black hair and blue-jeaned boys with golden tresses were frog-walked into paddy wagons. Some 200 people were jailed. Taking advantage of the chaos, a six-man gang waylaid the Dowager Duchess of Northumberland, sped off in a white Jaguar with her jewels, worth $200,000. Most shocking of all, for the first time in her eleven-year reign, Queen Elizabeth II was booed by her own people...
Died. Harold ("Pop") Nathan, 83, holder of the FBI's No. 2 badge and J. Edgar Hoover's right-hand man during the gang-busting 1930s, a small, owl-eyed pipe smoker who looked more like a bookkeeper than the top cop who cracked down on the Black Hand extortion ring, the Weyerhaeuser kidnapers, and the slayers of Mobster Frank Nash; after a long illness; in San Francisco...
...children that automakers often direct their advertising campaigns: one Ford station-wagon commercial piles a parcel of kids into a wagon to impress on youthful viewers that in a Ford the whole gang can go with togetherness...
...react in just one way to Al Capp's remarks that a prep school is a big gang as vicious as any in New York but without the guts: I'd like to punch Capp in his big leaking mouth. My research into the gangs of New York has failed to turn up a single character who has been willing to address himself to an enemy without a gun, a knife or help-hardly the symbols of guts...
...sultry nights when a gang rumble threatens in Washington Square, Howard Moody is not to be found as a clinical observer behind the protecting windows of his study, but on the street in search of ways to prevent brutal collision...