Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from the Mediterranean over the North African coast. A few minutes later at Maison-Blanche airport. Charles de Gaulle, clad in the undecorated suntan uniform of a brigadier general, stepped down onto the soil of Algeria-the first French Premier to show his face there since an Algiers mob greeted Socialist Guy Mollet with a shower of rotten tomatoes in February...
Little noticed in the frenetic rejoicing-put on daily so that Algerians would not lose heart while Paris hesitated-was a tall, slim man with the cold, blue-grey eyes of Flanders. Yet of all the gaudy generals and pompous politicians who harangued the Algiers mob, none had so good a claim to speak for the insurrection as 39-year-old Léon Delbecque. Despite his modest title-vice president of the Committee of Public Safety-it was Delbecque who had provided the organizational brains of the Algiers revolt...
...jubilant crowd poured from the high school into Fontana Square, scarcely 50 yards from the U.S. embassy, greyclad Republican Guards on horseback charged with flashing sabers. Shots rang out; stones were flung; 50 people were injured. In Delgado's lusty campaigning last week. Portugal saw more mob violence and bloodshed than in all the previous 25 years of the paternal dictatorship of scholarly Premier Antonio de Oliveira Salazar...
...there is any general anti-American sentiment among the people of Venezuela." He ascribed the Caracas riot to the fact that "the police force maintained under Pedro Estrada [police chief under Perez Jimenez] had been virtually liquidated, and the subsitute police did not know how to cope with the mob." This was also the verdict of experts on the scene, appalled by the ease with which a crowd of several hundred rioters tied up the police. Dulles' statement was perfectly accurate; some touchy Venezuelans reacted, however, as though he were lamenting the liquidation of Estrada's hated police...
...pale-faced Corsican named Buonaparte, who shunned his military schoolmates, read Plutarch in the library instead of playing games. Classmate Louis de Bourrienne also had the luck to be standing with 23-year-old Napoleon, then an out-at-the-elbow discharged officer, as he watched the howling mob sweep through the Tuileries to crown Louis XVI with the red cap of Liberty. He recorded young Buonaparte's Italian exclamation: "Che coglione! How could they let that rabble in? They should have swept away four or five hundred with cannon, and the others would still be running...