Word: mobbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to the plans, on Thursday, Nov. 12, at 10 a.m., the street mob was to take over Teheran, whereupon Mohammed Mossadegh was to take over the government. Meeting in secrecy, Mossadegh's lieutenants had worked out the grand plan. First they formed a secret National Resistance Movement, uniting, among others, discontented rich and powerful bazaar merchants, university hotheads and rebellious army officers of the secret Black Spider Committee. Then they got together with the outlawed Communist Tudeh party, setting up an all-powerful six-man committee to run the revolt...
This was the table of operations: call a general strike, muster the mob in the labyrinthine municipal bazaar, then fight through central Teheran to Majlis Square, where the leaders would emerge and take charge. If all went well, the Black Spiders would incite army units to defect, the Reds would break out hidden stores of rifles and bazookas, and the general strike would turn into a revolution...
...against the U.S. that Italian anger was aroused. In most cities, the mob attacks were directed against British consulates. All newspapers printed pictures of blood on the steps of Trieste's San Antonio Church and cried denunciations of the inept performance of General Winterton. There were demands for his recall. Pella demanded that those responsible for the police order to fire "be named and that they be prosecuted." In London, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden told the House of Commons that "the police seem to have shown admirable discipline and restraint in the face of extreme provocation." and U.S. Secretary...
...groups in front of John Harvard thawed out with a cheer while the dates began to relax when they saw that Harvard was pretty much like Princeton after all. Surging on through the Yard, the robust individuals in the increasing mob shouted to the freshman halls, "HoorrrRah, Holworthy, get out and get behind the team!" Each time five or six joined the crowd...
...from satisfied, the mob headed to the Square, the vision of Pogo driving them on. "These things just don't happen, ya gotta make them happen," some body said. One enterprising student climbed on top of the Subway Station and led the incensed crowd in "Tiger Meat." Three more men quickly followed his example and were quickly surrounded by a horde of University Policemen. On Massachusetts Avenue traffic stood still. One by one the self-appointed cheerleaders dropped into the waiting arms of the policemen, and surrendered their Bursar's Cards. These were the Martyrs and the crowd shouted...