Word: gangly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this style in the middle sixties when prompted to cover the activities of the Hell's Angels in California. He sought an antidote to the sensationalism and misrepresentation they were receiving at the hands of the press. While maintaining a reporter's role, he rode with the motorcycle gang, getting full exposure to the broken home life, intense love of fast choppers, wild orgies and drunken brawls, even suffering a brutal stomping at the end of his relationship with them. Although the means tended toward violence, the end result of this gonzo journalistic venture was a full and objective portrayal...
...grim fairy tale, Snow White is played by IBM, and the handsome prince she runs off with is some 60% of the multibillion-dollar European computer market. Hoping to break up the romance, the European Common Market Commission is readying a major proposal for the so-called dwarfs* to gang up on Snow White...
...Evening at Pops, Arthur Fiedler and the gang are joined by pianist-singer Bobby Short, whose love of Cole Porter, et al. is well-known. Channel...
...free trading to lead French President Georges Pompidou to describe that drop, accurately, as constituting in effect "a third devaluation of the dollar." Though money trading is actually a ruthlessly non-nationalistic affair, it seemed that everyone from oil sheiks to Swiss bankers to Japanese businessmen had agreed to gang up on the dollar and hack away at its value. On Wall Street, the barometric Dow Jones industrial average sank on Monday to 886, down 16% from its historic high five months...
Limiting Growth. Bradley intends to expand his powers and use opportunities that Yorty overlooked, reminding his commissioners of his big election mandate. He has called for the crash development of detoxification centers for drug addicts, the use of volunteer community patrols to curb street crime and gang violence in schools and the setting up of an ombudsman to initiate public hearings and investigations...