Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strategic, oil-rich realm of the Shah of Shahs, 29-year-old Mohamed Reza Pahlevi, had no government. The cabinet of deaf* old Ibrahim Hakimi had fallen two weeks before. Abdul Hussein Hajir (who has one glass eye) was named to succeed him. But last week a Teheran mob kept the Majlis from meeting to approve Hajir's cabinet. Said one English-speaking Persian politician: "There's an old proverb that 'a year can be judged by its spring.' Well, it looks as though there's going to be an early fall...
Last week blood did run. A mob of 3,000, whipped on by Kashani and other mullahs, gathered outside the Majlis building. There they tangled with police and soldiers. Some demonstrators acted on a Persian belief that the barefooted are the fleetest; they shed their slippers and scampered for safety, a slipper tucked under each arm. Among the demonstrators and troops, one was killed, 70 wounded. The Majlis meeting was canceled...
...common in Lawrence, Mass., a skinny Yankee youngster in knee pants worked his way eellike through an agitated mob to the foot of the bandstand. He looked up at a one-eyed giant who slashed at the air with great fists, roared like the Bull of Bashan: "Only by one big union of the working class and mass action can we hope for the final victory ... I would smash the ballot box with...
Swinging two-foot-long nightsticks like polo mallets, the mounted cops rode the mob into the gutters. Their allies on foot clubbed away with professional impartiality. In the garish, winking light men & women in agitated clumps struggled, groaned, desisted, fled. A news photographer was roughed up. Picket signs were splintered, leaflets shredded, clothing ripped. A cop shoved a matronly lady. "Sir," she murmured reproachfully, "I'm an innocent bystander." "Lady," he answered in sweaty exasperation, "if you was innocent you wouldn't be here." Five men were arrested...
...picture is most convincing on its surface. It therefore places in jeopardy the life of every Soviet national in this country. That cheering mob heard in the streets of tomorrow may not be cheering for blood on the football field...