Word: mobbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though the number of people killed probably exceeded no more than 30, the rebels had an uphill job in hiding the bloodthirsty work of their own assassins and the permitted fury of the street mobs. Last week 10.000 Iraqis a day were trooping through the gutted mansion of 70-year-old former Premier Nuri asSaid, whose naked body was dragged through the streets a few days before. While the rebels begged newsmen to "see things as they are today, not as they were last week," and even closed the ransacked royal palace as if to erase the memory...
...proprietor "protection" from legitimate unionization and collect monthly "dues" from him for a fragment of his staff-a fragment that rarely knows it has been organized. The weapons are terror, extortion and violence, wielded in many cases by rod-packing remnants of the late Al Capone's mob. Items offered in evidence at last week's hearings...
...last 17 months, 40 Chicago restaurants have been burned under mysterious and unexplained circumstances, doubtless because the restaurateurs resisted, for a while, the mob-run labor shakedown...
...first shy before crowds, he became their adored leader, gained the power to select the targets of the mob. to attract more people to join it, to manufacture its slogans, to brandish its raw, brutish power, to intimidate his adversaries. Yet if he were to abate that fury or convert it into a disciplined, responsible community, it would abandon him-the role would seek another hero. In the pungent Arabian Nights image: "He is a man born of a horse who has become the rider of the horse," and he could be unseated...
...shot, his soldiers took over the key points of the city. One by one the railroad station, the main intersections, the post and telegraph offices and the radio station were surrounded. By the time the troops began heading for the palace of 23-year-old King Feisal, an excited mob was at their heels...