Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were badly mauled and manhandled, raced for the grey stone courthouse in the centre of town, begged the sheriff for protection. He locked the doors, spirited the Communists to the Tazewell County jail, put them on a Chicago-bound train early next morning, after the threatening mob had dwindled from...
...delivering the verdict, Judge Stone said, "Good citizens, when there's trouble they can't help, keep away from the police. You can't maintain your constitutional rights in a mob in Harvard Square at midnight...
...mob of spring-inspired students germinates somewhere around Dunster House, sprouts from all directions en route to the Square, where it blooms, is nipped and withers in rapid succession. In the course of this brief life-cycle, a generally noisy world is treated to a lot of essentially peaceful noise for a change. Sundry streets, side-walks, students and Yard Cops receive a generous dosage of nothing worse than a wastebasket full of water; that the streets and sidewalks needed it, is fairly well established. Finally, about sixty Cambridge cops are treated to their favorite out-door sport--there...
When 60 police had arrived the mob was driven back to the Square, and after milling around for a quarter of an hour in front of the First Church of Cambridge and the University Theatre, the rioters gradually dispersed...
...Mob Driven Back...