Word: mob
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Karonga a mob armed with stones and clubs swept onto the airfield, burned down a building, stormed a jail and released 13 prisoners. In rapid succession trouble flared in Livingstonia and at Mzim-ba. At first the Nyasa government minimized the outbreaks, but Federal Prime Minister Welensky did not. "We have adequate forces," said he, "and we will not hesitate to use them...
...Comodoro and the Sans Souci. He also keeps an eye on the Capri casino, where his associate is Mobster Charles ("The Blade") Tourine. Gambler Joseph Silesi. wanted for questioning after the New York barbershop murder of Top Hood Albert Anastasia, is casino manager at the Hilton. None of the mob makes a move without consulting Miami's Meyer Lansky, 57, gangland boss of the southeastern U.S. and board chairman of the Havana show...
...would not be renewed for mobster-owned casinos. The hoods hope that a batch of clean front men will meet the government inspection. One of them posed Castro's dilemma neatly: "Only gamblers can run casinos-you can't get a priest or a garage mechanic." The mob was quite happy to be working with a government noted for purity. Said one operator last week: "Me, I'm glad those greedy Batista crooks got bounced...
Even President Siles sighs: "But for your recession, Bolivia would be going through the happiest period of its history." Then he looks around at his office's portraits of two recent Presidents, one a despairing suicide and one hanged by a mob, and adds morosely: "The man sitting here always feels the rope around his neck...
...Temple Drake was held captive in a Memphis brothel has a novelist contrived such powerful scenes of terror. While the key gangster gives Chance a going over, the Arabs begin to riot in the town. Buildings are bombed, the gangster's house is attacked by the mob; and while Chance fights his love for Anna and takes his physical beating, he fights the tougher battle of a religious man trying to find the grace that will keep him spiritually sane. If Chance and Macgrady sometimes probe their souls to the edge of tiresomeness, Author Fielding always intervenes just...