Word: mobbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Moslem Brotherhood took charge of the streets; the Bedouin garrison began attacking officers and an infantry unit known to support Abu Nuwar. They fought first with stones and rifle butts, later with bullets. Twelve men were killed or wounded in the melee. Then, as the desert warriors and the mob merged and started a wild surge down the road to Amman, a loyal officer telephoned Hussein at the palace...
...first the trial of strength was a standoff: three successive politicians tried to form a new Cabinet, and failed. After three days Nabulsi and his pro-Communist allies called out the mob. In Amman and the crowded cities of Palestinian Jordan, schoolboys started demonstrations in which thousands of refugees quickly joined. Some voices cried: "Down with the Eisenhower Doctrine." But most of the crowds shouted for the return of Nabulsi's Cabinet...
...kind of People's Monarchy. To a stunned constitutional convention met to draw up a Code Pippin, he lays down what he wants to be the law. beginning with the maddeningly un-French notion of everyone paying his taxes. Before the reader can say "Ca ira," the mob is in the streets clamoring for the Fifth Republic, and what happens to King Pippin after that is best left for Author Steinbeck to tell...
What exercised the mob was the conviction that France may be softening its stand on Algeria. In the National Assembly Premier Mollet barely survived his 33rd vote of confidence by a margin of 33 votes. Led by Mendès-France, a bloc of 13 Radical Socialist Deputies boldly voted against the government, though the party has 13 members in Mollet's coalition Cabinet. Mollet, hurt by the attacks on his military policy and tough police methods, had been obliged to plead: "I am sure none of you think that the government, the army and the administration want...
...columnists had been accurately predicting who would carry away Oscars from the award-giving show of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Any glamour that was left was promptly rubbed out by the split-second demands of television, which turned the parade of winners into a supermarket mob scene. "It was." concluded Hollywood Restaurateur Mike Romanoff, "perfectly dull...