Word: mobbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Burning Oil. Next morning a sullen mob, recruited from Baghdad's slums and with scarcely a student in it, gathered at one end of squalid, narrow Rashid Street, in the heart of the city. Reds raced up & down like cheerleaders, whipping up the mob; one agitator showed the approved method of handling opposition by leaping at a parked bus and slashing its tires with a huge knife...
...rowdy South African city of East London. At the entrance to the segregated Negro "location" -a maze of tin-can shanties where every other baby dies at birth-she found herself in the midst of a bloody pitched battle between East London's white cops and a mob of tribesmen. The police had broken up an illegal Negro prayer meeting; the result was a race riot which blazed for seven hours. Unafraid, Sister Aidan (real name: Dr. Elsie Quinlan) drove through the police lines and greeted her Negro friends. Some of them tried to shield her, but a howling...
...cities. In the diamond town of Kimberley (pop. 75,000), the Negro location sprawls along the railroad tracks; white engineers sometimes scare off the matchstick-limbed Negro children who climb up on to the coaches begging for bread, by letting off gusts of scalding steam from their locomotives. A mob of Negro hoodlums spewed out of their beer halls, burning and pillaging saloons and municipal offices. Police killed 13. Earlier, in Port Elizabeth, four whites were murdered simply because they were whites. South Africans have often denounced the U.S. press for exaggerating the South African crisis. But Cape Town...
...successive ice cream vendors to move from their Elm Street locations, and Yalies objected violently. Undergraduates hurled jeers, pillows, and water bombs at the policeman, and then swarmed out into the street to begin a large-scale riot. Police seemed to have the affair under control, and the mob was dispersing when a fire truck and riot squad made their ill-timed arrival and turned on the mob jets of water and billy clubs. Several officers drew revolvers...
...dean stood his ground, declaring that he would not bow to ill-advised mob sentiment. The next day, his resignation, which he had submitted several weeks before the riot, was reluctantly accepted...