Word: mobbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...carrying a large portrait of Kassem and a long list of anti-Communist complaints, including the fact that the Communist president of the National Federation of Peasants' Associations is not even a farmer but a former hospital worker. But on the way to Kassem's office, a mob of Communist toughs shouting "National front" attacked them with clubs and fists. Bruised and angry, they finally got in to see Kassem, but only after squads of soldiers broke up the brawl...
...riots quickly spread to the Asian quarter in Victoria Street. There, less than a mile from the $60 million beach front reserved for the whites, 800 women besieged another beer hall, while at Cato Manor the mob of rioters swelled to more than 3,000. When men were seen joining the women, the police decided to open up with their Sten guns. Four Africans fell dead; 24 more were injured badly enough to be taken to the hospital...
...exception of the Frenchwoman rather than the general fever that prevailed before De Gaulle stepped in a year ago. Two years ago the explosion in the Rue d'Isly would have brought the paratroopers out in force, perhaps led to dozens of arrests, or might have set European mobs to rioting against Moslems in reprisal for terrorist outrages. But last month, an hour after the grenade blast, the crowds on the Rue d'Isly were as thick as ever; most Europeans looked upon the wreckage and passed by, as if it had simply been a ghastly accident...
When 40 carabinieri arrived to clear the marketplace for the day's trade, tempers flared, and the trouble began. Fighting tear gas with rocks, cabbages and potatoes, the mob forced the troopers to retreat into the city hall, where for good measure the rioters ransacked the local tax office and burned the tax records. Seizing the abandoned carabinieri truck, the peasants drove it through the barred double doors of the city hall's main entrance and set it afire. But inside, besides the harried carabinieri, were 100 women and children, who were trapped in upper floors...
Keep Out. As the days wore on, the rumor spread that the princess herself had ordered the blackout in retaliation for the mob scene at the airport ("And that is not far from the truth," admitted an embassy official in private). The dismal climax came when she paid her call on the Federation of British Industries' fair-the purpose of her trip in the first place. Not only were the Portuguese barred and all entrances locked (though the British exhibitors were allowed in), but Margaret was followed about by six burly, khaki-uniformed members of Her Majesty...