Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shotgun. Harrison watched part of the mob lead quivering Roger Malcolm and George Dorsey down a sandy track toward an oak tree. The Negro wives left behind in the car began to shriek. Harrison heard one of them call out the name of one of the mob, but swore he couldn't remember what...
...Harrison silently looked on as the men dragged the struggling women over to the oak tree and shoved them beside the bound figures of their husbands. Then the mob fired three pointblank volleys into their prisoners...
...Major William F. Spence, Georgia State Police head, complained: "We just can't cope with the case. . . . The best people in town won't talk about this." Loy Harrison, who had lived in those parts all his life, still could not identify either members of the mob or its "dressed mighty proud" ringleader...
...Mob In the Street. De Gasperi did not exaggerate the danger. A factory strike in Turin duplicated the general sitdown of 1922 which ushered in Mussolini. In Milan a jobless mob beat up municipal and police officials, and in Florence rowdies cut off the telephone central. Communist-dominated strikers at Mantua set up Soviet-like cells, prevented citizens from moving about unless they had passes signed by strike leaders...
...whole mob, looking like De Gaulle's Paris Victory parade, moved slowly through the dark-wooden-soled shoes clonking on the cobblestones, voices jabbering in German and English. Shadows pulled and clawed at the clothes and arms of the Americans. Out of the dark came a ceaseless flow of questions. Have you any cigarets? We like Americans. When will the Americans fight the Russians? Is it true we get better rations than the American zone? Do you know my uncle in America...