Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Leaving their wounded bleeding on the floor inside, the defeated garrison of Cantrell-Mansfield followers filed out, hands high in the air. Under a glaring spotlight beamed on the damaged entrance, the onetime law of McMinn County squinted wearily at a jeering, taunting mob...
...trail of lynch law led from the mob murder of four Negroes on a lonely Georgia roadside (TIME, Aug. 5) to a Mississippi bayou deep in the land of Bilbo. There it was marked by the battered corpse of a Negro tenant farmer floating in the scum...
That was too much for the crowd at North London's ugly, red brick Harringay Stadium. Someone in the two-shilling enclosure vaulted the barrier onto the track, shouted: "Come on!" Three or four hundred others joined him. The mob started five bonfires of broken hurdles and fencing, dumped the photo-finish camera into one of them, heaved bookies' stools through the windows of the track restaurant...
...always been our policy to discuss public men and issues as we saw them. . . . We . . . will not be intimidated by any threat, spoken or implied, of mob rule...
...more he mulled it over, the more Editor Hardy felt that it was he who had the apology coming. Last week he wrote another editorial. Its title: "Freedom of the Press Cannot Be Displaced by Mob Rule...