Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Francisco of Barbary Coast days and the Chicago of Al Capone's era. Animosity between Gaullists and Communists reaches a shriller pitch in Marseille than anywhere else in France. In Marseille last week the new R.P.F. (Gaullist) mayor, Michel Carlini, 58, who had been mauled by a Red mob, lay on a couch, his head wrapped in bandages, and said...
...Following the melee with my Communist 'colleagues,' I retired, with my assistants, to a private room in the City Hall. There I was warned that Communist shock troops were on their way over. We waited, and soon heard the rumble of the mob outside. Then, one by one, we heard the doors of the City Hall crash open as fiendish howls of 'Death to Carlini' grew nearer...
...last obstacle-my office door-gave way, and a mob of howling furies leaped on me. One of them, an ugly, red-bearded giant, hit me on the head with a chair leg. I was knocked down, and under a deluge of punches and kicks, dragged down the stairs and outside the City Hall. I recognized the shrieks of my wife, mingling with the yelling of the mob: (À mort, à mort, à mort...
...police might have saved him, but they did not, because some were Reds and some were afraid of the mob...
...shouldering seabags or paper suitcases, started for the gate in a formless mob. Then Murphy had an inspiration. "Wait!" he yelled. "We'll go back in order. Form in lines of six each." Standing at the foot of the gangway, Murphy shook hands with every man as he went aboard...