Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lincoln and his Cabinet received the news of the Union defeat at Scott's headquarters. Then "above the hissing of the gas jets . . . another sound seemed to fill the bare little room-the roar of a mob in flight." "Hour after hour, the crowds stood . . . the Avenue solidly packed from the Capitol to the Treasury [over a mile]. In the small hours of the morning, they were still there; the population of a doomed city, listening for the thundering guns, the pounding cavalry, the shouts of the victorious rebel army." It never came. The Second Invasion. Instead, McClellan came...
France. In Paris, war-weary poilus returning from Syria were greeted at the Gare St. Lazare by stones and boos from an unruly mob which shouted, "Down with Vichy!", "Down with the occupying authorities!", "Long live Russia!" Of six people killed and 19 wounded, when police fired on the crowd, the Nazi-controlled Paris press growled, "Jews and Communists!" Same day, two miles away in the traditionally Red St. Denis district, police quelled another roaring riot. Following day, Nazi authorities revealed a wave of arson was sweeping both zones in France, issued a blunt warning to Communist saboteurs and propagandists...
...been making and remaking these many years. It is not much of a house, but Abbott & Costello are in it and that makes it funny. They inherit it from a murdered gangster, refuse to be frightened out of it by the ectoplasmic machinations of their donor's mob, hold on until they hit the jackpot: the dead gangster's fortune cached in a moosehead. This feeble chronicle is considerably enhanced by such sure-fire episodes as greaseball Lou Costello climbing in bed with a ghost...
...silk the U.S. imported was used in hosiery alone. Skeptical of substitutes, correctly assuming that there would not be enough nylon stockings to go around, women stormed stores. In Manhattan, department-store owners had to station guards in doorways and aisles. One executive, reporting on the mob at the gates, declared: "When you opened the doors at 9:30 they fell flat on their faces...
...during the worst bombardments. The wheeze of his laughter was never stilled whether he was jaunting in Ireland, following the British in North Africa and Ethiopia, or covering a sea battle in the Mediterranean. He decided it was time to come home when his leg was crushed after a mob of excited Egyptians in Cairo pushed him from a train during an air raid...