Word: mobbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week's revolutions in both troubled nations had left real power where it always had been: with the bigger battalions. In Cairo-city of mosques, millionaires' clubs and slums-power lay with the army; in Teheran it lay with the mob. Yet neither group was strong enough to rule alone. To give Egypt enduring government, the army needed popular support. Iran's mob, the power behind Mossadegh, needed even more urgently the support of the Iranian army. To fuse and discipline army and mob was a task for no one less than another Kemal...
...into political terms, this means that he has an uninhibited affection for people, even strangers, and shows it when they put personal demands on his life. Right after his wedding in 1949, he overheard his bride say: "Will someone fix my jacket before I go out and face that mob?" Said the bridegroom: "Why, that's no mob out there, my dear, that's the American people." When the American people began to make sightseeing detours through the driveway of the Barkley farm, Mrs. Barkley was all for putting up a sign: "Private Property, No Trespassing...
Police, left without any solid clues, blamed it all on "Le gang des châteaux historiques" (the Historical Castle Mob). Fifty-six châteaux have been robbed since 1946, and none of the loot recovered. French police have a wholesome respect for "le gang's" professionalism in burglary and taste in art objects. They believe that many wealthy art collectors all over the world may have unwittingly purchased the stolen stuff...
...describes himself as "the only Oriental in my class," traveled farthest to be at the reunion, coming from Tokyo, Japan. He is combining the trip with business, for the import and export firm of J. Osawa and Co., Ltd. of Tokyo and Kyoto. Asked how he was enjoying the mob meeting, he answered that he was enjoying it, but "it takes a while to go back 25 years; to put myself back that far. When I do, though, my classmates look pretty much the same as over to me--happy, confident, and yet serious when needs...
...descriptions of the early Vanderbilt Cup races, in 1904, 1905 and 1910, which were denounced from the pulpit but drew crowds like a magnet: "Louis Chevrolet wrapped his Fiat around a telegraph pole on Willis Avenue . . . Harold Stone, driving a Columbia, leapt the Meadowbrook bridge and shot into the mob, killing his mechanic and injuring a mixed bag of bystanders...