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Word: tearaways (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rivalry was literary, the Yard did not seem to mind. But then Billy Hill, bored with the artistic life, began to frequent his old haunts with the possible notion of taking over the rackets from Spot. One day last August, Spot, dressed in his elegant best, and a tearaway identified as "Italian Albert" Dimes began slashing at each other with shivs amid the crowds of shoppers in Soho's Frith Street−an event which indicated that, at the very least, things were not all quiet in the rackets. Because of the obliging perjury of a petty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Gunfire in The Smoke | 7/9/1956 | See Source »

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