Word: gangly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ERVIN thought that Nixon got into trouble because his gang "undertook to nullify the laws of God and the laws...
...pool. Shouting, "You blacks can't come down here," the boys watched as Jennifer drowned. Later that same week, Ken Harvey, a 41-year-old white schoolteacher, and his family of 12 were burned out of their home in London's predominantly black area of Brixton by a gang of 20 black kids who had vowed "to get whitey...
...feel the tension as you walk the streets of Brixton, a run-down, one-square-mile neighborhood south of the Thames where rows of closely built, rapidly deteriorating, Victorian-style houses serve as tenements for poor black families. Outside the ramshackle Apple Restaurant, a gang of gaudy but poorly clad teenagers hangs about looking for something, anything...
Crimson opportunism struck again midway through the third period. Allen handed off to Malone, but a devastating gang tackle on the Red halfback disengaged the ball. Tennant, with a vacuum-cleaner-like efficiency, gathered in the football...
...games. The Defense, which hasn't given up a score since the first quarter of the UMass game, has amassed the top set of team statistics in the NCAA, yielding a stingy 100 yards per contest total offense. The Harvard "no-namers" have become a cohesive unit, pursuing and gang-tackling with awesome efficiency...