Word: mobbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hardly finished when conservative Bostonians rose in protest, denouncing him as a traitor and a Bolshevik, accusing the University of supporting the strike and mob rule, (Harvard had actually sent about 200 students to help fill temporary gaps in the force) and demanding that Laski be immediately removed from his instructorship...
...titular sovereignty" over the zone (as William Howard Taft had done 50 years before) and promised that zone commissaries would adopt a policy of buying only U.S. or Panamanian products-as soon as "normal conditions" were restored. Then he went home, leaving Panama to face the prospect of a mob action all too likely to be turned back on the "oligarchs" themselves...
...mob of about 300 battled Panamanian National Guardsmen and U.S. soldiers...
...Alec Guinness in The Wicked Scheme of Jebal Decks (NBC). Not long ago Guinness, perhaps best remembered, for his role as the dubious bank clerk in The Lavender Hill Mob, declared: "I have an absolutely unalterable rule-no more roles about a dubious bank clerk." For his TV debut, he played just such a clerk, who dubiously plots to avenge 22 years of thankless labor by humiliating the bank's brass. His scheme: instead of swiping the bank's funds, he adds his own money to them, creates total bookkeeping chaos, and rapidly advances toward the presidency when...
With all the emotional, economic and political issues involved, a vital difference remains between the demands of Boyd's unruly mobs and Egypt's once unruly Nasser. Whereas Nasser acted in his official capacity as chief of state to reach out and grab the Suez Canal, Panama's President de la Guardia shuns such ambition, and even the mob so far aspires only to seeing the Panamanian flag flying over the "sovereign" territory...