Word: mobbed
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...Times did not apply the same standard to another highly publicized sexual assault, the rape and near fatal beating of a jogger by a mob of teenagers in Central Park two years ago. In that case, unlike the Palm Beach incident, the victim's name was available in official documents. It was published by a local weekly, broadcast on a local TV station and featured on placards of protesters who claimed that the defendants were being railroaded. Yet in dozens of stories the Times never published the jogger's name...
...squares, 10 by 10. One bets on the numbers. The croupier takes a live chicken by the legs, blows sharply up its behind and throws it into the ring. The first number the chicken defecates on wins. The winning number takes all. It will be a while before the Mob moves in on Belizean gambling...
...disclose her reasons for writing the book. But Sinatra had never had to deal with so determined an opponent. Kelley argued that Sinatra was trying to prevent her from publishing freely; Sinatra's lawyers finally dropped the suit. The book, which detailed Sinatra's fabled womanizing, his alleged Mob connections and two suicide attempts, received respectful reviews. More than 3 million copies have been printed in hard-cover and paperback...
While there, Fulminante began to fear he was being targeted by prisoners who had heard rumors that he was a child killer. Anthony Sarivola, a fellow inmate with a reputation for mob connections, offered to protect Fulminante but demanded to know the full details of the crime. At that, Fulminante admitted he had driven the girl into the desert, forced her to perform oral sex and made her beg for her life until he shot her twice in the head...
...secret of the transformation from group to mob: a few leaders incite the rest, knotting the rope, throwing it over the limb of a tree. The others allow themselves to be carried passively by the group purpose. Lynch mobs always armor themselves with a sense of their retributive righteousness. They also mean to exert social control by exemplary doses of terror, on the conceit that violence is the only language the victim understands...