Word: mob
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gaulle spoke in Bourges, one of the worst riots since the Algerian war began broke out in Constantine, Algeria's third largest city. Enraged by a rebel attack outside town on two young Europeans and their teenage dates-one girl was kidnaped, the other three youngsters murdered-a mob of settlers surged through Constantine's streets wrecking Moslem shops, beating up such hapless Moslem citizens as fell into their hands, and shouting: "De Gaulle to the gallows!" Next day Moslem youths counterattacked in the streets, wielding knives, razors and steel-tipped clubs against Constantine's Europeans...
...plays, by Harvey White and Deric Washburn, received an enthusiastic reception yesterday from a sizable mob of theatrical types and other mortals. Neither meaningless nor messianic, the two pieces display humor, occasional wit and much technical skill, and under the aegis of the Harvard Dramatic Club, they were well and speedily performed. Anyone who has a special interest in local dramatics should not fail to see them a repeat performance, today...
...hapless mutineers stumbled off to their cells, the Communists turned their control of press, radio, unions and of the Baghdad street mobs to seek out other enemies, particularly in the Foreign Office. For the first time the Communist press openly demanded representation in the government. In Washington, U.S. Intelligence Chief Allen Dulles told a Senate subcommittee last week that the situation in Iraq is one of "the most dangerous in the world today." But the manner in which the Communists pressed for more power showed that they did not have it yet. At week's end Iraq celebrated...
...first day at school, Jim's class pays a visit to a planetarium, which the gang decides to make the scene for a little action. Buzzy, stereotyped black-jacketed levi leader of the mob, goads Jim into a switchblade duel. (Stark has a paranoic aversion to being called "chicken") But merely proving himself in this daytime version of kicks is not enough; society demands more...
Proud of his record of law and order, Coleman declared fervently that he "never expected to see the day" when there would be mob action in Mississippi. It was, said he, "the first such incident in 20 years...