Word: mobbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...preserved portraits of his hero. But hero worship creeps in, and Evangelist Wesley is too often depicted as an 18th century version of Tough Guy James Cagney-deflating the dandies of Bath, puncturing the pomposities of the Anglican Bishop of Bristol, brushing off a highwayman, slicing through a murderous mob of Cornish fisherfolk. In general, the film lacks the dramatic effectiveness of the Lutherans' successful Martin Luther (TIME, Sept. 14), but it should be a popular and acceptable program piece for Methodist churches for months to come...
This week the Russians tried to kidnap Evdokia, and almost succeeded. They hustled her into a black Cadillac, sped 190 miles at top speed to Sydney. At the airport, an angry crowd mobbed the Cadillac, tried to overturn the car. The Russian guards dragged Evdokia through the gates while the mob, now 3,000 strong, chanted "Don't let her go." Trying to smile for photographers, Evdokia wept instead, covered her face with both hands. Scores jumped the fence onto the field, broke past police lines to tug at Evdokia and strike at her guards. Witnesses said they heard...
...only living Marshal of France was sacked for flouting orders and openly attacking government policy. The Premier of France was roughed up in a mob scene beneath the Arc de Triomphe. For 20 miserable minutes the Minister of Defense was surrounded and threatened by a muttering, gesticulating gang of Parisians. That, in brief, was what was going on in Paris while on the other side of the world, at Dienbienphu, soldiers of France fought to glory...
Early in the xyth century, a Roman nobleman commissioned three famed artists of the day to paint their versions of Ecce Homo (Pilate presenting Christ to the mob). He bought the one that pleased him best, by Lodovico Cigoli, and eventually it passed to the Pitti Palace at Florence. Another version, by Domenico Passignano, is lost. The third, by the great Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, also disappeared...
...Sanhouri, Egypt's Chief Justice, who is rumored to be a Naguib supporter, and beat him badly. On hearing the news, National Guidance Minister Major Salem, a Nasser man, drove at a 70-mile-an-hour clip to the court, climbed atop a truck and shouted to the mob: "For God's sake, do not act like this! Do you want the British to walk in?" "The people have already shown their feelings enough," said the Interior Ministry, and the government banned further demonstrations. Troops and tanks moved in to keep order...