Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crowd: "Death to the King! Death to Roatta!" An angry column, some 2,000 strong, stormed out of Colosseum Square to the square before the Quirinale. Carabinieri, rifles ready, barred the way. Cried the demonstrators: "Down with the carabinieri" Stones thudded against flesh. Mounted troops pushed back the mob. A machine gun, aimed into the air, chattered ominously. In the scuffle, grenades exploded...
When the officers managed, after a half hour's fighting, to reach Mountie headquarters in Heriot Street, the mob followed and besieged them. Every win dow in the building was smashed with ice chunks. Two, possibly three of the blue Chevrolets belonging to the Mounties were overturned and badly damaged. All the glass in another car was shattered...
...nearly 1:30 a.m. before Drummondville's police thought things had gone far enough and began to disperse the mob. As quickly as they could, the Mounties and constables headed out of town. They took nine suspected draft dodgers or deserters with them. Conscription-hating Drummondvillians had freed the rest...
Thoroughly alarmed, the conservatives struck back. Army and judiciary heads attacked the Assembly. So did a mob, presumably inspired by conservatives, which charged through the streets of Quito shouting: "Down with the Communists!" The crowd came near to killing Comrade Saad. He was saved when a leftist mob engaged the conservatives in a free-for-all in front of the Presidential palace. At the height of this political disagreement, President Velasco stepped out on a balcony, talked his volatile countrymen into breaking off their bout and going home...
...forces were about a thousand yards from the center of the Greek Government and the Hotel Grande Bretagne and also the same distance from the British Embassy . . . and seemed to be overrunning this place, or at any rate the seat of Government by this well-armed and well-directed mob -[after an interruption] - brigands, if the Honorable Member wishes ; this was about to take place...