Word: gangly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nihilists or anyone else. A pest and a spendthrift, he tormented the author all his life, and a standard scene from biographies has Pavel being forcibly kept from Dostoyevsky's deathbed. Nechaev did exist, and Dostoyevsky did transform him into a character in Demons, but the student his gang murdered in a celebrated crime was one Ivan Ivanov. Coetzee could hardly help knowing this, but not a word of preface or footnote explains that historical truth has been meddled with...
...third attempt they got lucky, and, with Calhoun in hand, Sam and the gang tried to pull off the type of stunt that legends are made...
...members of a gang with links to the Irish Republican Army were being held in connection with a killing that took place during a robbery of a post office facility in Newry, 30 miles south of Belfast. The murder of a postal clerk was the first since the I.R.A. announced a cease-fire in September. It caused the Irish government to rescind plans for the early release of I.R.A. prisoners. Sinn Fein said the killing was tragic and wrong...
...argument is that even though Perspective editor Derek He was "OSTENSIBLY" criticizing the Philippine Forum for argument's sake, he is really prejudiced against Filipino culture and that Perspective is implicated in his insensitivity. While I expect such idiotic opinions from McGuire and the rest of the Peninsula gang. I had thought that the Crimson would know better than to actually print them...
Sneakers, a Milwaukee, Wisconsin, gang member, comes by his nickname honestly. "It's 'cause I'm so fast," he explains. "Real fast." Especially after he snatches a purse. Or burglarizes a home. Or pulls a trigger. Sometimes, though, Sneakers isn't quite fast enough. He has already served three years for two robberies. Now 21, Sneakers is a two-time loser on the prowl in a three-strike state. But he's not worried that a third felony could put him away for life. "The law don't make no difference to me because I ain't gonna get caught...