Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even hoped that prompt action would break the back of the Congress party once & for all. Optimistically, Government officials announced that resistance was virtually under control. Immediately new riots broke out in Madras, where four men were killed trying to attack a railway station. Ahmadabad mills closed. A Karaikkudi mob tried to free an Indian being jailed. Calcutta brooded restlessly, heard threats of work stoppages at vital war plants. Poona, Nagpur, Cawnpore, Wardha reported fresh riots. An airplane dropped tear gas on a crowd of Bombay mill workers. The New Delhi Town Hall was burned...
...India, mob turbulence in Bombay and Delhi rose to such heights of violence that British Imperial troops for the first time had to join police in efforts to quell it. The unofficial death tell since the mass struggle for Indian independence started on Sunday mounted to 32 with the killing of 13 more rioters in Bombay and three in Delhi...
...Opposition demand this week that Colonel Drew's letter be made public threw the House of Commons into an uproar. Amid wild shouts and cries of "order, order," Mackenzie King called the Conservative party "a mob" and defied them to silence his defense of the Government...
...drilling for riot formations, they are trained in the best methods of breaking through crowds and breaking up mobs. Forming in a V shaped wedge, they are taught to rush through the mob and grab the leaders. The formation is very similar to the "flying wedge" once used in football...
...went up at 9:45, in order to skip the receiving line. It took six minutes of elbowing to get through the mob outside, and some swivel-hipped open field running to reach the dance floor. Four times he tried to cut, only to be tripped thrice and kicked once before he could penetrate the cordon of hopefuls surrounding the dancers...