Word: gangly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tense TV. It was evening when Swedish authorities received Bonn's decision and telephoned the news to the gang in the embassy. Disbelieving, the group first tried to call the Bonn government direct, then at 11 p.m. released three women hostages with a message for the Swedish government that ended: "Victory or death!" At 11:45, while Swedes watched the tense proceedings on their TV sets, two giant explosions rocked the embassy. As flames shot through the top-floor windows, five figures quietly climbed out of a window at the side of the building. When Swedish police shouted...
...grim and exhausted Chancellor Schmidt appeared Friday morning before the Bundestag. "We didn't make it easy on ourselves yesterday," he admitted, to applause from all sides of the house, "but today I am convinced that we fulfilled our duty correctly." He noted that the Baader-Meinhof gang was believed responsible for the murder of nine people and the wounding of more than 100 others. "To have released these criminals, some of whom are still awaiting trial," he declared, "would have meant an inconceivable shattering for our security and our state...
...promising idea: John Wayne as a Chicago cop in London to extradite a big-time gang leader who has fled his jurisdiction. The comic possibilities of watching Big John do his bullish best to get his man, while tiptoeing through the tea-cozy minefield of British decorum, seem endless. Any American who has tried to take lunch at a club in St. James's without seeming to be an absolute plonk in the headwaiter's eye will appreciate Wayne's problem -and perhaps look forward to seeing an exasperated Duke put an end to all that social...
...exhausted. One day he offered the Soviets access to the Mediterranean; on another he almost gave away the German fleet (then in British hands). Stalin comes carrying plans for a neo-czarist empire stretching across half of Europe. Dapper Harry Truman arrives with such members of his old Missouri gang as his "personal rascal," General Harry Vaughan...
...hitters on our team instead of a gang just bumping the ball around," she said...