Word: hooligan
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...face of such action, hooligan bravado collapsed. The gangs packed bedrolls, hid jackets to prevent identification, whined their way past police checkpoints, and rolled quietly into the darkness. With relief, Angels Camp watched them depart...
...fear of a trial . . . Over there in the wilderness I'll start a new life. The past will be buried. Everyone will be drinking; I'll not. I'll behave. I'll be almost a saint. No one will say that Marochka is almost a hooligan . . . I'll live alone without anyone, without cards. I'll be reborn within the Komsomol...
...Hooligan's Wake...
...wouldn't make sense for the word "hooliganism," as used by the Russians, to derive from Happy Hooligan of a long-ago U.S. comic strip [TIME, Nov. 8]. Happy was a harmless wight who was always being socked, never did any socking. Doesn't the word really come from a family of notorious ruffians, active in London at the end of the last century, named Hoolihan or Hooligan...
...days before Pogo, Li'l Abner and the cold war, one of the best-loved characters in U.S. comic strips was Fred Opper's amiable tramp, Happy Hooligan. Today the grim commissars of Russia use Happy's name to describe a crime they regard as the essence of capitalist decadence. Last week the wife of a U.S. embassy employee in Moscow was officially accused of "hooliganism" and asked to leave the country. According to accounts blared out over Radio Moscow, pert and pretty Mrs. Betty Sommerlatte, whose husband Karl is an embassy second secretary, had viciously punched...