Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were other causes, and the script touched on some of them (Ku Kluxers and similar agitators) as well as on citizens who had the guts to stand against the mob. The script wound up with quotes from the Berlin and Tokyo radio propaganda playing up the riots (". . . the problem of labor and capital cannot be solved by the present rulers of the U.S.A. . . . hundreds of Negroes were sacrificed on the altar of the American white superiority complex...
...among us would change places with our civilian sisters? Who would give up the comfort of flat heels and lisles, or our little gremlin suits or the mail-box mob or rows of wet white gloves, or disbursing problems, or our mail from Bu Sand A? Not We! We Would rather flirt with Portsmouth. After all, you could win fame knitting socks for chilly sailors-and who knows, membership in the Portsmouth Outing Club could be exciting-well novel anyway...
Other difficulties have also beset potential chroniclers of the doings of the A-L mob. For instance, there's the darndest amount of hush-hush which must surround our pursuits (including the extra-curricular ones, of course). All we can say is that the boys are learning xxxx xxxx xxxx, and studying all there is to know about...
...their shots Friday with a vengeance--flank movement with merchurochrome, pincers of tetanus and typhoid, and out. But the worst was yet to come, whispered the mob, just wait till it hits...
...Freely translated: mob rule, like Nazi dictatorship, is nasty business...