Word: gangsterized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What the hanged men had in common was that they had all supported deposed President Syngman Rhee. Otherwise, their alleged crimes hardly seemed to merit the death penalty: former Home Minister Choi In Kyu was accused of fraud; Rhee's ex-bodyguard Kwak Yung Joo and Gangster Lim Wha Soo, of corruption; Socialist Choi Back Keum, of "antistate activities," and Publisher Cho Yong Soo was charged with "sympathizing" with the views of Communist North Korea...
...Soviet Union's resumption of nuclear testing has revealed, all too clearly, the following fact. A gangster (the Soviet Union) does not cease his bloody activities because society frowns upon his activities - the extension and preservation of Communism through deceit, treachery, and barbarity when necessary. Since society employs armed policemen to protect itself from gangsters, by the same token a nation should use minimal adequate force to protect itself from international gangsters...
Salinger's family and friends respect his hermitage and protect him like Swiss pikemen. For some of them, the conspiracy of silence is wearying; Author Peter De Vries clams as loyally as anyone, but admits that knowing Salinger makes him feel like a TV gangster: "You go skulking around not talking...
...ways, and there are other blazes elsewhere. At least two more Cincinnati locals are thinking about disaffiliation. Happily surveying the ranks of discontent, A.F.L.-C.I.O. scouts estimate that there are at least 25 more locals around the country just itching for the chance to get out from under the gangster-ridden union world of James Riddle Hoffa...
Around the clock and throughout the year, every 16 hours the Japanese movie industry completes a feature. Full of samurai swords, gangster gunfire, even Japanese cowboys short in the saddle, the movies are fed to the most ravenous audiences in the world. Some theaters actually book quadruple features. Although the country has been in a cecilbedelirium ever since it first saw The Ten Commandments, about the only type of film not made in Japan has been the religious epic. On location near Kyoto, the Daiei Motion Picture Co. is taking care of that-with The Life of Buddha...