Word: mobbed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...back. Two white gauze pads, daubed with wet blood, dangled fron his skull and neck. "See," he said. "They want to kill us." Just then, the crowd surged toward the precinct house. One of the police ran out to the gateway wildly swinging a machete. This infuriated the mob, who responded with barrage after barrage of stones. Inside the post the pounding of rocks on the corrugated zinc roof and hollow cinder-block walls was deafening. The police nervously grabbed their rifles and went to the windows...
...course, is the estimable Hal Prince. His delineation of character detail remains as telling as ever (contrast Andy's smooth shuffle with Ravenal's hesitant walk), and his handling of crowd scenes is impeccable: a nod here, a gesture there, and a chorus is transformed from a mob into a collection of individuals. There are no haughty white folks and nobly suffering darkies aboard Prince's vessel -- just real people who know that sometimes it's not only make-believe. The beauty of this Show Boat is that it makes believers...
...junta in Haiti learned the lesson. When last year, a lightly-armed American contingent travelled to Haiti to pave the way for Aristide's return, they were met by a junta-organized mob on the docks, openly threatening "another Somalia...
...Fund, two organizations that had always received his special scorn, and he spoke frequently and amicably with the U.S. ambassador. But when the military began to move against him, he reverted to type and gave a speech he has come to regret. He seemed to give the nod to mob justice when he called the "necklace" -- a burning tire placed around a victim's neck -- a "beautiful instrument" that "smells sweet...
...nation's vital interests wherever they are truly at stake. In Haiti the credibility gap the President seeks to close is largely the result of his own dithering. Indeed, more than anything else, the current crisis can be traced to the President's capitulation to an unarmed rent-a-mob protesting the arrival of a U.S. warship last October. When the Harlan County turned away from Port-au-Prince, the junta was emboldened to break its promise to depart voluntarily...