Word: mobbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Soon the whole town is talking about the "mystery girl." Crowds mob her in Macy's, TV types paw her, the soap man bills her in a big ad campaign as "the average American girl," the Air Force hails her as "The Girl We'd Most Like to Be Up in the Air With." Gladys has at last become a Somebody. But there is a moral: a Somebody is sometimes only a nobody that everybody has heard about. With this thought in her pretty head, she is patiently led away by the boy (Jack Lemmon) she has really...
Further, the modern tendency toward elaborate organization, which works for everyone, does not discriminate against criminals. In earlier times, society usually had the criminal at a heavy disadvantage; he was likely to be a lone wolf or a member of a loosely knit mob with small resources, untrusting and untrustworthy, incapable of stable alliances with other criminals. The 20th century has seen an extraordinary shift to conspiratorial crime, which reached its first great flowering during Prohibition, e.g., the Capone gang. Some American gangs have maintained their continuity for a generation, enforcing discipline on their members and finding allies in respectable...
...disappearance of lynching does not mean that the U.S. has reached an idyllic pattern of race relations. Three attempts at lynching (only one in the South) were frustrated last year. And other methods of mob violence (such as bombings and riots against mixed housing), the institute reported, are on the rise...
...manner as yet undiscovered, the conditions for reproduction and fertilization occur. Male desert locusts come on the scene, and the quiet females suddenly forsake their love of solitude. Side by side with their new consorts, they swell the deadly locust swarm, trapped in the toils of their own mob psychology...
...another general, sly Kurt von Schleicher. Under Schleicher, the army was not above, but in, politics. Vain, unscrupulous, he schemed incessantly behind the republic's back. Worst of all, he let Hitler's private army of brown shirts grow to a scrap-happy, unmanageable mob...