Word: mobbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Elsewhere, Russia's new switch back to the hard line brought a new batch of affronts. In Moscow, an obviously stage-managed mob milled around the U.S. embassy for three hours, yelling insults and shaking fists. Russian fighter planes forced down a strayed U.S. Air Force transport plane south of the Caucasus Mountains, took the nine crewmen captive, charged the U.S. with a "gross" and "deliberate" violation of Soviet airspace. And stubborn foot-dragging met U.S. efforts to get back nine other U.S. servicemen who landed in East Germany in early June after their helicopter got off course...
...Moscow last week Western diplomats and newsmen were treated to a sight seldom seen in the 40 years since the Bolsheviks stopped making revolutions and started making the rules. The sight: Russian mob demonstrations...
...Street and began to hurl stones, chunks of concrete and bottles of purple ink. By the time they dispersed two hours later, the ink-stained façade of the embassy looked like a huge Jackson Pollock canvas, and more than 40 large windows lay in splinters. A similar mob had already bespattered the Danish embassy...
...midafternoon, Reuters agency announced that its Moscow correspondent had been cut off as he was telephoning his account of the rioting mobs before the West German embassy (see FOREIGN NEWS). Most Fleet Street editors sighed resignedly and sat back to wait until the Russian censor lifted the blackout. But in a cluttered, dingy office in the Manchester Guardian's London bureau, rumpled, high-domed Victor Zorza grabbed a street map of Moscow, picked out the police stations nearest the German embassy. Minutes later, a desk man in Moscow's police station 88 picked up his telephone, was astounded...
Spokesmen in both the South and North reacted predictably. Illinois' Democratic Senator Paul Douglas declared that Judge Lemley seemed to have "yielded to the threat of mob violence. I have never understood that mob violence took precedence over the law of the U.S." Said Arkansas' Democratic Governor Orval Faubus, who was now helped mightily by Judge Lemley's ruling in a primary campaign for an unprecedented third term (TIME, June 23): "Most gratified . . . The Negro citizens in the community would do well to accept this ruling." Little Rock's School Superintendent Virgil Blossom summed...