Word: mobbed
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...almost exactly noon, a volley of tear gas touched off the final revolt. Police guarding the parliament thought they could face down the furious, swelling mob. The peppery gas started to bite, pushing back the crowd as many dragged out handkerchiefs ready in their pockets. But the police were unwilling to match the ferocity of the crowd as its show of strength escalated into a full-scale assault on the principal symbols of Milosevic's power...
Recent hopes for a Mideast peace agreement were shattered yesterday, as Israeli helicopters launched rockets at Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's compound in retaliation for the killing of three Israeli soldiers by a mob of enraged Palestinians...
When word of their presence spread, more than 1,000 Palestinians surged toward the building. Palestinian forces tried to keep the mob at bay, but about 10 men broke through a second-floor window where the Israelis were held...
...Ramallah, the police station was reduced to rubble after being hammered by the rockets, and flames poured out of a second building. An angry mob gathered outside the station, shouting "God is great" and raising a Palestinian flag on a damaged wall...
Time moves backward when it is time to move on. The dynamics may change, these murderous passions may exhaust themselves. (It is hard to believe that anyone's sense of injured honor would be appeased by joining a lynch mob to commit the most primitive of murders. But victims feel themselves to be justified in anything that they do.) In any case, maybe peace will become possible again after this fire has blown itself out. If it does blow itself...