Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...filed out of Mem Hall through the mob of shouting salesmen Vag smiled in triumph. The years were telling. Never before had his pen retained its flourish to the last of these interminable signatures; never before had he strutted so jauntily through the crowd, shoving Coop agents aside with arm free of the dreaded writers' cramp. He grinned broadly when he remembered the look of dismay which had covered the faces of the members of the War Service committee when he had handed them back their Questionnaire, blank and neatly torn through the middle. He'd done...
...TIME [May 25] you depart from your usual independence of judgment when you side with the mob in general, New Dealers in particular, and "pinko" New Republic in very particular in condemning and ridiculing members of Congress. Out here where we like to think things through instead of becoming hysterical, the members of Congress look as good to us or better than the members of the packed Supreme Court or the screwballs making up the "New Deal" administration-e.g., Harold Ickes, Henry Morgenthau Jr. and the like...
...down Nassau's swank Bay Street, smashing shop windows, helping themselves to expensive liquors, French perfumes, fine English fabrics. Said one excited spectator: "It was just like Pearl Harbor-it came so suddenly." Panicky merchants lowered their hurricane shutters and the British garrison police bore down on the mob. There was wild street fighting. Three of the rioters were killed, 40 arrested. The mob gradually retreated, with its stolen liquor, to native Grant's Town. But peace was not restored until the Duke returned and promised that something would be done about his problem...
...slackers, or that they are afraid to fight. But it is true that, after being voted down more than 2-to-1 in a national "conscription" plebiscite (TIME, May 11), they are not yet prepared to bow to the will of the majority. In one hinterland village a mob stormed the jail to release two home-service army deserters; in another village a mob threatened, with pitchforks, soldiers seeking an R.C.A.F. deserter...
...youngest private and performed every task that any other member of the party performed. Against food scarcity, terrible heat, and rains, the General battled with dogged perseverance through the jungle at the rate of 14 or 15 miles daily until, at the end, he whipped the strange, polyglot mob into a disciplined force, willing to follow him anywhere...