Word: mobbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mob grew as it slowly surged towards Harvard yard. Rockets began soaring from the upper class houses...
Martyrs' Blood. It seemed to be all over. But the quarreling in public had for the first time destroyed the regime's untouchability. Now, on the fourth day of the crisis, discredited Wafdists, Moslem Brothers and Communists mingled with the mobs. Soon the streets' mood changed. The omnipresent cheerleaders who before had yelled for "Habib el Shaab" (People's Beloved) added a new cry: "Down with the rule of the twelve." The crowd formed into a mob that surged across the Kasr el Nil bridge, passed the plush Semiramis Hotel and headed for stately Garden City...
...Moslem Brothers dipped their handkerchiefs into the martyrs' blood, held their Korans aloft and led a mob of 50,000 in Abdin Square, under Naguib's office balcony. A brotherhood chieftain climbed atop a jeep, screaming that beloved Naguib must free all the prisoners and oust the military from the government. Naguib, appearing on the balcony, ignored the agitators and told the crowd: ''I owe you my life. Everything will go in the right direction." The mob responded by dispersing. As a gesture to the evident public dissatisfaction with the behind-the-scenes rule...
...Churchgoers. Five other Negro families have since moved into the development, but the Howards bear the brunt of mob hatred. Whenever Don Howard leaves the apartment house, he gets into a paddy wagon and, with a police escort, is taken to a safe area to board his bus. The route is changed every day. But violence continues. Last month, as Betty Howard, 22, left the 11:30 Mass at St. Kevin's Church, some 40 people congregated outside, most of them also coming from the services. The group shouted insults and threats, and six shrieking women followed Mrs. Howard...
...tacit support, urgently warning Sam not to "loot or burn down the cities." But once in office, Sam balked at signing a treaty for U.S. occupation of Haiti. Instead, he jailed and massacred 167 suspected revolutionaries-then panicked and fled for asylum to the French legation. A raging mob broke into the building, found Sam hiding under a bed, dragged him out, literally tore him limb from limb, and paraded through Port-au-Prince with his head on a pole. Haiti's history had hit bottom. Admiral Caperton, waiting in the harbor, immediately landed two companies of marines...