Word: mobbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...switch from the customary muscle operation, the Professor on at least one occasion used sweet-talk in pursuing the mob's objectives, according to committee files. "Inasmuch," he once implored a Jersey City cargo exporter, "as the Jersey City waterfront has immoral and undependable and unpredictable working types, I think you should consider moving your operators to Brooklyn [where the docks are run by "Tough Tony" Anastasia, the late Albert's brother]. All I can offer you is the guarantee of a scholar and a gentleman. Let me assure you that I will give you 5,000 spiritually...
There was a crush at my shoulders and a push from my back as the entire Moscow press corps moved forward. I was conscious of a straining forward in the mob around me, a whispered rustle of notes being made of every word, a great effort in my brain to say something to match the occasion...
...paint-splashing mob is still faithful to their hero. But among Indonesia's leaders, Sukarno, alienated from his old comrades in arms, sharply challenged by his opponents, is walking an increasingly lonely path, with only the enthusiastic Communists and a handful of docile yes-men for company...
...fried chicken) as the handout. In her most critical task last week, she showed cucumber-cool efficiency in getting out advance texts of Ike's speech at precisely the promised hour (two hours before TV time), even looked serene as she distributed copies one by one to a mob of 50 milling newsmen. Says she: "I am not a panic person...
...program music, more on the level of a movie sound track than a concert piece. The first movement, "Palace Square," evoked an atmosphere of imminent tragedy, with its ominous drumbeat in the background. The second, "January 9th," is a musical treatment of the mob scene on "bloody Sunday." The third, "In Memoriam," is a funeral hymn to the fallen heroes, based on revolutionary songs of the period. The fourth, "Tocsin," rising to a crashing coda, was described in a Moscow daily as "a call for tireless struggle for the highest ideals of mankind.'' The work evidently satisfied Moscow...