Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...communities called "families" from Maine to southwest Kentucky. Between 1840 and 1860, they attained their peak membership. Their peculiar religious practices caused the world's people to persecute them. Mother Ann's life is believed to have been shortened by a beating she took from a Massachusetts mob. But the Shakers' honesty and industry at last won them general respect...
...great duty to defend orderly process and the law as it stands, changing the law at will as his ideas about his society changes. This is very simple minded and rather 18th century, I'll admit, but no one has demonstrated that an administrative procedure based on mob violence, curbed at intervals by arbitrary police power either in Germany or Russia or Spain is a better system...
That same year, Illinois Governor Thomas Ford threatened to raze Nauvoo. The 38-year-old prophet surrendered himself as a hostage for his people-and sealed his own fate. A mob with their faces disguised with paint invaded Carthage jail, shot him as he tried to escape from a window. As he fell to the ground, a lyncher with a bowie knife prepared to cut off his head, despite the remonstrances of a horrified bystander (see cut). But as he died, the prophet had one more triumph; the sun blazed out, illuminating the jail yard, and the man with...
...Mildewed mob and is modest at last...
...tried& -trusted clichés came tripping out of typewriters: "gigantic underworld combine"; "imported triggermen"; "multimilliondollar gambling empire"; "mob biggies." Florid Florabel Muir, the New York Daily News's specialist in Hollywood crime, at least tried to be different. She wrote: "Bugsy was cut down amid the overwhelming perfume of blossoming jasmine...