Word: hoodlum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...from being a freedom fighter, Kurdish radical leader Abdullah Ocalan is a vicious hoodlum [WORLD, March 1]. Greece, which arranged to sneak this international terrorist into Kenya, should be put on the U.S. State Department list of terrorist countries. Greece has nurtured the ideology of Ocalan's Kurdistan Workers' Party cutthroats. ILYAS BOTAS Paterson...
...dark vision of Big Business. He was nine when the family immigrated from Sicily, where his father had labored in the sulphur pits, to New York City. He took to the streets early, was busted almost at once for shoplifting, later for delivering drugs. Luciano was a tough teenage hoodlum on the Lower East Side when his gang targeted a skinny Jewish kid whose bold defiance won their respect. The encounter led to a merger of Jewish and Italian gangs and a lifelong friendship. When Luciano rebuilt the mob, Meyer Lansky was the architect. A ruthless natural ability enabled them...
...vote reflects the exasperation of ordinary Russians, says TIME Moscow correspondent Yuri Zarakhovich. "People find no security from legitimate authority, so they seek it from mafia dons -- after all, mafia dons pay their debts and their salaries; public officials don't. The people see this hoodlum as a Robin Hood...
...forgetting the many others who are still struggling against tyranny, slavery and poverty." In an interview with TIME on Saturday, Wei said that China's leaders view human-rights concessions as a tool of diplomacy: "They are using political prisoners as hostages in international politics. It is an evil, hoodlum method...
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