Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Forcing the crowd back towards the Square, the police came into conflict with the surging mob, and in the melee they arrested the seven and hustled them off in patrol wagons...
...this point the Reynaud-Chamberlain mob, whose guts Mussolini despises, got tired of greasing Italy with talk about cooperation and compromise in the Mediterranean. In Sheffield one of Neville ("Hardware") Chamberlain's most formidable torpedoes, Economic Warrior Ronald Cross, turned on the heat. "We are plain-dealing and plain-speaking people," he said, "and we should like to know where we stand with Italy." If Italy is neutral, said he flatly, she will have to act like...
...betting odds in London went from 50-50 to 40-60 that Italy would soon openly declare for Germany, the greatest annoyance to Little Caesar remained the fact that he was still not at all sure about the trigger value of his own mob. Italians who cheered scenes in a war film showing the Allies to advantage had to be slapped and kicked in the pants by Fascist militiamen. The Roman Stock Exchange took a sickening 50-point dip at signs of Nazi-Fascist military cooperation...
Yugoslavia, where Italy would probably move first, discovered after 22 years that the Soviet Union existed as a State, began to dicker for mutual diplomatic relations, sent a large delegation to the Moscow mob to negotiate a commercial agreement following three months of secret conferring in "a third capital...
...pioneer Mormon stock, won the $7,500 Harper Prize Novel Contest with Children of God, a 769-page epic of Mormons and their two famed leaders, Joseph Smith and Brigham Young. Author Fisher told in lusty detail of Prophet Smith's plural marriages before his lynching by a mob at Carthage, Ill., in 1844. To Reorganized Mormons, who believe that Joseph Smith neither practiced nor preached polygamy, the book was a plural pain...