Word: mobbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mob violence is rare. The year 1952 was the first without a single reported lynching. Many of the South's "better people," who for years tacitly condoned the Klan, have now abandoned it. It is socially as safe to back antimask bills as it was once to take hot broth to an ailing Mammy's cabin...
...Blair Arch, a traditional rallying point, and spilled into the streets of the town. More than 1,000 strong, it yelled its way down Nassau Street, exploded a few more firecrackers, sent a task force to storm the Garden Theatre and broke up the show. By the time the mob reached Hulit's shoe-store, it had been joined by Tad D. Hammond, who is as prominent in his own way as the studious Joe Sugar...
Hulit's window. While the mob moved on to new adventures, the battlers untangled themselves from shoes and glass and retired to Princeton Hospital for repairs...
...like the Communist Party. We have reason to believe its objective is to take from us the freedom we cherish. But we have a democratic procedure for dealing with subversion through our courts and through legislative enactments. It cannot be our policy to allow government by the mob, government by the whim and caprice of segments of our population. Professors who abet such extra-legal procedures act with no more responsibility than lynch mobs or demagogues. If the Lubells have acted injudiciously they must be handled by the properly constituted bodies of our government...
When he had finished, the mob cooled off and drifted away, showing no sign of acting on the President's advice. But after dark a band of young Perónistas, only 20 or 30 at first, set out to do El Lider's bidding armed mainly with cans of gasoline. Gaily yelling "Perón! Perón!'', they broke into the empty headquarters of the Socialist Party and set it afire. Spectators, among them Police Chief Miguel Gamboa, gathered to watch the blaze. The arsonists, now a hundred strong, moved on to Radical Party...