Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...statute giving federal authorities the power to "protect foreigners against mob violence, and making participation in such violence a federal crime...
...year later he jumped three more officers in the Jackson yard. Suffering from syphilis, for which he adamantly refused treatment, he once infected a Jackson guard with the disease by biting him. On April 21, 1952 Hudson rose screaming in the Jackson mess hall and led a riotous mob of prisoners on a five-day orgy of destruction. Jackson, with a convict population of some 5,000 men, labeled Jim Hudson the "most dangerous and assaultive man in this institution." Transferred to Marquette, he was confined permanently to his cell...
...freely admitted, was the fact that the U.N., unable to act against Russia, was clamping down hard on Britain and France. Less than 24 hours before Pineau spoke, 190 Norwegian riflemen of the United Nations Emergency Force entered Port Said amidst screams of welcome from a wild-eyed Egyptian mob. The Norwegians were the thin end of a wedge with which U.N. Secretary Dag Hammarskjold intended to winkle the reluctant British and French out of Egypt...
Justified Mistake. The first Soviet intervention in Budapest, which led to the shooting down of workers, Tito called "absolutely wrong," brought on by stupid Stalinists not giving in to legitimate complaints. But later "reactionary elements interfered . . -. an unleashed fascist reactionary mob . . . killed Communists." It was "clear that a horrible massacre, a horrible civil war would result ... in which Socialism [Soviet variety] might be completely buried." Thus the second "Soviet intervention" with tanks to shoot down the rebels was "completely justified." It was also a "mistake": some Kremlinists "still believe that military strength solves everything. But just see how a bare...
...which he won the Silver Star). As a civilian, he kept going to war. In Guatemala during the anti-Communist revolution, he climbed over street barricades carrying not only a camera but a .45 Colt. During Tunisian riots, he calmly snapped pictures in the middle of a pillaging mob looking for Frenchmen to kill. In Indo-China, snipers' bullets ripped his uniform without touching him. In Algeria, he was often as much as five hours ahead of advancing French troops. In Moscow, he stepped up to a high-ranking Soviet officer in the street, plucked off his shoulder-boards...