Word: mobbed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...oversimplifies a complicated issue. By only describing an Israeli Border Policeman violently confronting a Palestinian youth, the caption or photograph does not capture the incident in its totality. It gives the impression that this was an unprovoked act of Israeli-initiated aggression and ignores the presence of the belligerent mob that threatened an apartment compound housing Israeli Jews...
...anger could then just have dissipated. The tabloids were not about to let that happen. Sensing a turn in public mood, they fed and amplified it mercilessly--and with such success that by the end of the week, on the eve of Diana's funeral, the mob roared and the Queen caved...
...ideas that such clever journalists have tried to put into the mind of the mob was that this was some kind of demonstration against the royal family. The monarchy is under threat, say the pundits. The crowds loved Princess Diana's common touch. Unless the Queen can adapt herself and become more like Princess Di, then the monarchy will crumble...
...sexual assaults on campuses with high binge-drinking rates. Several schools, including the University of Colorado, the University of Iowa and Ohio State, have recently been the site of "beer riots," some set off by toughened alcohol policies. At Colorado, scores of police and students were injured when a mob of 1,500 threw bricks and Molotov cocktails over a three-day period last May to protest a crackdown on drinking...
...Eldon was killed in a way more befitting another era: he and three other photojournalists were stoned to death by a mob in Somalia after U.N. forces attacked an alleged stronghold of General Mohammed Farrah Aidid's. Although he died young, Eldon left a startling record of his life: 17 journals full of collages, layers of photographs, clippings, writings and other scraps. Eldon had grown up in Kenya, led a relief mission to Mozambique, worked in New York City as a graphic designer, traveled extensively, written a book and started his own photography business. Now his mother Kathy Eldon...