Word: mobbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Outside the grim walls of Rome's Regina Coeli prison last week, a happy mob of wives and sweethearts strummed mandolins and serenaded the prisoners cheering through the windows above. They had plenty to sing and cheer about: the Chamber of Deputies had just voted to free more than half of Italy's 50,000 prison inmates, the most liberal amnesty in the nation's history. Italy's police, however, did no cheering: the amnesty applies not only to political offenders but to thousands of petty thieves and run-of-the-mill crooks, many of whom...
...mob stopped in its tracks, and the chief of police asked to see their leaders. Harry Johnson and Vince Malone stepped forward. "Tell your men to go home, boys," said Big Mike in a soft brogue. "If you don't, my men will do it for you." The labor leaders protested: "You let those Commies stay on the dock. You won't let our men off the ship, and you tell us to go home. Whose side are you on, anyway?" Said Big Mike: "I don't want to argue with you. Get your...
...role of Septimns, a drunken poet, Russell more than acquits himself in the evening's second play. His eulogy of the chaste unicorn is particularly charming. The most skillful performance of the evening is Bronias Sielewicz' Decima, the actress who becomes queen when the real queen flees an attacking mob. Graceful in her movements, she is alternately coy and contemptuous as the part demands...
...orders, a mobile police reserve sat ready in trucks at central police headquarters, while in the expectant bazaar, blue-uniformed cops clustered thickly. As fast as troublemakers showed, the cops clubbed them, shoved them into cars, drove them off to jail. The police were indiscriminate but effective; the mob never got out of the bazaar. Casualties: two to five rioters dead, another 218 deported to bleak, boiling-hot Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf. General Dadsetan sat back at headquarters and smiled: "There's not much...
...family of Clara Petacci, mistress of Benito Mussolini who died with him at the hands of a Milanese mob in 1945, sued the Italian government for return of 36 love !enters from Il Duce to Clara, plus pages from her diary and other personal documents. Although the government confiscated the papers because of their "national historical interest." Rome buzzed with the word that the letters are not yet entirely historical. As the rumor went, the government is reluctant to part with evidence that many a now prominent Italian asked favors of Mussolini through the dictator's doxy...