Word: mob
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the hoarse throats of 250,000 Cubans jammed before the presidential palace in Havana rose the chilling cry: "Pa-re-don! To the wall! To the firing squad!" By whipping up a frenzy of hatred, Fidel Castro last week got mob approval for a resumption of the drumhead justice that earlier put to death 551 Cubans accused as supporters of ex-Dictator Fulgencio Batista. Now the blood purge would be aimed at defectors in the band of barbudos (bearded ones) who lifted him to power, of whom hundreds are now in prison...
...Weird Mob. Some immigrants find the bland phrase "New Australian" as offensive as the "dago" and "hunky" it was designed to replace. "I've been here eight years," complains a Greek, "and they still call me a bloody New Australian. When do I become an old one?" But barriers are breaking down: immigrants now hold 20% of all Australian jobs, and are neighbors of the old in suburban streets. Some 80,000 bachelor immigrants have found native-born wives. They're a Weird Mob, a breezy book about an Italian newcomer's discovery...
...mob of freshman preppies defeated the Milton Academy varsity football team 40 to 8 yesterday in an unofficial clash...
...round last week, Ghana's uncorrupted, British-trained police had been forced to arrest 82 United Party toughs, while only seven of the C.P.P.'s boys got into trouble. And two C.P.P. men-the only martyrs of the whole election-lay dead, the victims of a U.P. mob. After that, Nkrumah's candidate was a shoo-in, and the P.M. himself could turn to other things. At week's end he turned up before the steering committee of the All-African People's Congress in Accra to deliver a stirring anticolonial address. Its theme...
...Untouchables (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). The exploits of Eliot Ness, famed prohibition vigilante, are recounted in an hour-long weekly show. Narrated by Walter Winchell, the first episode ( The Empty Chair) concerns jockeying for mob leadership after Al Capone's departure for prison...