Word: mobbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Greece's claims to Cyprus (TIME, Oct. 3). But before the nasty surge was checked, it had swept beyond minorities, to strike at many Turks as well-a raging protest against high prices, low wages, and the sight of luxury in its midst. Trying to call off a mob from burning a Greek church, a Turkish woman lawyer, Surreya Agaoglu, shouted from her balcony that the marauders were endangering their own homes. "What have we to lose but a blanket and a pot?" came a harridan's screech from the mob. "You wait in your fine home. Your...
...Penclope, the widow of Colonel Henry Vassall, both fled with their families rather than live with the rabble of rebellion. A relative by marriage, Lieutenant-Governor Thomas Oliver, who was a member of the infamous (to revolutionaries) Mandamus Council, also moved to Boston, at the request of a mob of 4000. Another mob, composed of "boys and negroes," persuaded Chief-Justice Stephen Sewall to take his "soft, smooth, insinuating eloquence" elsewhere...
Again the whistle blew. Tom Bell was on the sideline where he had managed to carry the ball. The mob of men disentangled itself, but one remained down--Pat Brown. The umpire cleared the field at this point. Coach Harry Coldstone came out running. Two medical corps people worked over Pat--chest crushed! When Pat had been removed from the playing field, a substitute came into his place. Unlimited substitution is permitted. The chief point is that eleven players must be standing on the field. But one of the Giants limped off the playing field, another wiped blood from...
...contemptuous looks of the manager and the coach. . ."American football has about as much likeness to European football at does rowing to sailing. In action, it is played hardly at all with the feet, at best in order to trip the opponent or kick him in the shins." . . . . "The mob of men disentangled itself, but one remained down. The umpire cleared the field at this point. Coach Coldstone came out running. Two medical corps people worked over Patchest crushed! When Pat had been removed from the playing field, a substitute came in to take his place...
Seven days after the triumphal signing, Nasser faced a cheering mob in Alexandria. As he rose to make his speech a man stood up in the audience and fired eight shots at him. Nasser remained standing and all shots missed. His first cry was, "Arrest that man." Then he stepped to the microphone: "Oh, my men, stand in your places. Oh, free men, stand. I revolted for your sake. I taught you dignity and self-respect. Oh, my citizens, my men, I brought to this country dignity and freedom, and I fought for your sons. Oh, free men, stand...