Word: mobbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cardinal entered the ancient former Carmelite convent on the Rue d'Assas in Paris and paused on the stone stairway. Here, on Sept. 3, 1792, a howling mob of the Revolution had hacked to pieces 114 bishops and priests, thrown their dismembered bodies into the Seine. The cardinal uttered a short prayer for the peace of their souls, then went on up the "stair of the martyrs" and entered the Salle des Actes, smiling and gesturing with slender hands. Before him, four cardinals, 20 archbishops, 90 bishops-most of the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church in France-rose...
...police station of Jaroslaw, near the Soviet Ukraine frontier, was reported stoned by a mob of several hundred persons...
...Foreign Service Regulations state: "As a rule, a diplomatic representative or consular officer shall not extend asylum to persons out side of his official or personal household. Refuge may be afforded to uninvited fugitives whose lives are in imminent danger from mob violence but only for the period during which active danger continues...
While the body lay in state in Mexico City for a day, 200,000 people jammed the street or filed slowly past the bier During the burial a huge mob pressed forward, knocking over tombstones and trampling graves. On the fringe of the crowd vendors hawked pictures, balloons, bean-filled tacos, lemonade and ice cream...
...center of the crush, police clubbed back the mob to keep Infante's relatives from being pushed into the grave. In all, 114 were arrested and more than 100 injured. Widow Irma wept at the graveside, while Widow Maria Luisa mourned in a limousine near by. Still to be decided...