Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...towheaded boy in the blue suit had an angry, muttering mob at his heels. Straight to Kielce's ghetto he led them, to cobblestoned Planty Street, where nearly all the city's surviving 800 Jews lived. The boy stopped in front of a three-story apartment building, pointed, cried: "That's it-that's the place...
...Planty Street to see what was afoot. By that time the crowd numbered 5,000 and was eager for action. Police arrived too late. Jews were lured out of the building by men in army uniforms who promised them safe conduct, then turned them over to the mob. Twenty-seven victims were taken to a nearby schoolyard and knifed, clubbed or stoned to death. Seven more were killed after being dragged from a train. At week's end 41 Jews and four Gentiles were dead, and as many more were gravely injured. Among the dead was Dr. Kahane, whose...
Stuffy, blundering Yoshida ran into immediate trouble. While he struggled to form a government, Tokyo leftists swarmed into the streets. They coupled the demand "Give us more rice," with the cry "Down with Yoshida." One mob, 200,000 strong, marched on the Premier's residence. Thirty demonstration leaders, among them Kyuichi Tokuda, Secretary General of Japan's Communist Party, entered the house, bedded down in the front parlor, threatened to stay until the Premier resigned...
...first nonverbal reaction was "civil disobedience." Arab workers in Palestine walked out in a twelve-hour general strike. Diehard pan-Arabs called for a jihad, or holy war, to wrest back Palestine from the infidel. In Jerusalem, the Arab temper flared most angrily. A mob surged from the Mosque of Omar, shouted "Death to the Americans and British!" and stoned a column of Tommies. They fell back before British batons and a sudden heavy rainstorm. Tanks rumbled up to the Damascus Gate. The 100,000 British troops in the Holy Land were alerted...
...mother nature as "Jehovah in His maternal capacity" healing her children. The first Yosians were readers who wrote in to ask if they might tag along when he took hikes" to hunt material for his column. The dozen nervous nature lovers who first showed up grew into a traipsing mob of 500. The unwieldy crowds have long since been formed into 50 or so sub-walks under lay Yosians, but the founder's own weekend walks have remained the big attraction. Nowadays he hits the woodsy trails in New York's parks or just beyond the subway...