Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another witness declared that she recognized Lollar's voice among a hooded mob that had hauled her mother, her sister and herself, together with three men visitors, into the woods and whipped the three of them with a rope after a preacher had prayed over them. A man whipped by the Klan testified: "I recognized Brownie Lollar when he laughed...
Zaisser's army has a planned initial strength of 45,000 men. It began as an elite officer-training cadre for the Volkspolizei (People's Police), which was-and is-an ill-organized, straggling, desertion-ridden mob of 250,000 men. In the year it has been in operation, the Volkspolizei has proved to be unreliable for the Reds' long-range purposes...
After setting on the Bertram Hall clapper, they ran out to the square, where thirsty students were clubbed, police were stoned, and the Brattle Square Police Station rocked under the attack of the augury mob trying to rescue an arrested student...
...with walkie-talkies yelled into their instruments; an ambulance came screaming up the drive. Its driver bawled: "Where are the wounded?" The effect of all this was spectacular: Lieut. Porterfield had told nobody-not even the Capitol police-that he was "recapturing" the Capitol from an imaginary but bloodthirsty mob...
...course, the individual actors must get their applause. Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews and William Eythe were probably better than in most of their other pictures. Andrews was exceptionally good in the lynching scene itself. The whole mob, for that matter, formed a brilliant supporting cast...