Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Police beat back the rioters at the door of the French officers' club. But the cursing mob broke into a nearby movie theater jampacked with Moslem women, panicked them with stones and bullets, wounded several, killed a policeman and a boy before dispersing...
...pain, fell with a stab wound in his back. Angry Tommies beat through the dark village, could not find the assailant. Next day a gang of Italian youths pummeled a tipsy British soldier. Again Tommies rushed to the rescue. Shots rang out, hit some bystanders, dispersed a defiant mob...
...front pages of Chicago's newspapers almost ignored the war. They had more exciting news. Headlines blazoned accounts of kidnapping and murder. Accompanying stories hinted at the rise of a new gangland mob: the "wise boys" said that the "Syndicate," or the "Outfit"-presumably the remnants of the old Capone gang-was being muscled out. Black-market traffic in liquor* and even in cheese was involved; so was the overlordship of gambling, bawdyhouses and numerous other rackets. Then, to top it off, to give the stories the real burnt-powder smell of the turbulent '20s, the name...
...forests west of Moscow, in December 1941, the first big test came. By this time Voronov had already amassed a reserve-three field guns to the enemy's two; two mortars to the enemy's one. The road to Moscow lay clear before Hitler, save for a mob of armed Moscow workers and Voronov's guns. The workers fought, and died. Voronov's guns sent Hitler's armies reeling back...
...long after Christmas either." Also missing from most counters: pajamas, children's clothes, cribs, playpens and even rattles, watches, and-above all -good whiskeys. When a Washington D.C. liquor store advertised that it actually had 8,000 bottles of real rye, bourbon and Scotch for sale, a mob that made a football crowd seem tame waited outside through ten freezing hours for a chance to carry away a bottle...