Word: mobbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most utterly hated newspaper in the world. Reporters are regularly beaten up, death threats come into the city desk almost daily. Editor Antoine Mazzella had his apartment bombed, Publisher Jacques Lemaigre-Dubreuil was machine-gunned to death on the street (TIME, June 27). Three weeks ago, a mob of Europeans swarmed into the paper's plant, smashed arinting equipment...
...funeral last week in Tampa, Fla., his omission was revealed. In another account, left to be published after his death, gentle old (87) George Parke admitted that he was one of the riflemen, probably the youngest, and the last to die. In his last account, he still defended the mob of which he was part. Wrote he: "It was a solemn occasion to all of them, not a lynching, but a public execution...
Later, when the Pasha himself returned from calling on Grandval, a crowd of angry youths blocked his car's passage. Octogenarian El Glaoui himself seized a submachine gun and stood foursquare on the cobblestones until the mob dispersed. Before the sun went down on Marrakech that night, Morocco was the poorer by 10 more dead and 27 wounded...
...Indonesia's many crises three years ago, a young army officer named Zulkifli Lubis helped President Soekarno out of a tight spot. He was one of the officers who stood by the President when a rampaging mob, urged on by one faction of the army, sacked the House of Representatives and stormed the presidential palace...
...people approved when Bowles crowed: "The only thing black in the schools . . . will be the blackboards." Even when he was arrested for conspiring to violate the Delaware school-attendance laws, thousands remained loyal. They paid no attention when the state attorney general accused him of fomenting mob rule; nor did they seem to mind that he had once been in trouble with the Baltimore police for failing to pay some workmen. Bryant Bowles was leading the Cause...