Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...question now was whether Leopoldville's Central Government could keep Katanga under control now that it was won. If the mob violence back in Leo itself was any indication, U.N. troops would have to stay on in Katanga for quite a while. Down Leo's Boulevard Albert stormed 600 students and street urchins, shouting "Tshombe to the gallows!" At the British embassy, which is considered fair game because of London's friendly policy toward Katanga, the mob battered down the doors, sacked the offices, and tried to pry off a coat of arms because, as one student...
...when Larrazábal's Air France 707 arrived, an uncontrollable mob of thousands overflowed the airport chanting "Viva Larrazábal" and "Down with Betancourt." In the crowd was TIME Correspondent Moisés Garcia, who was invited to ride with Larrazábal on the triumphant trip into Caracas. In the crush, Larrazábal's aides pulled Garcia in through a rear window while two Venezuelan National Guardsmen yanked on his legs to keep him out. Garcia was an eyewitness to the enthusiasm...
...barely edged through the screaming, cheering mob. Larrazábal kept nervously combing his hair and murmuring "My God! My God!" The car's clutch was burning, and the party, Garcia included, had to be transferred to another car for the trip into Caracas, where 3,000 viva-shouting greeters waited...
...legs appeared on the hood, and disappeared as she climbed over the windshield and onto the roof. More people began stomping on the roof, and as it started to cave in, Larrazábal climbed out a window and onto the roof to try to calm the mob. A fat woman in a tight skirt nearly squashed him in a bear hug. Larrazábal frantically leaped down, fled to another car, and finally managed to get away...
...search of the father who had abandoned him and his impoverished mother years before. The highway, like the highways of Fielding or Smollett, yields a complete novelist's kit of cutpurses and murderers, madmen and saints. The hero is set upon by mastiffs, trampled to insensibility by a mob, and nearly deprived of his virginity by a jade. He meets a cold-eyed man accompanied by a pox-pitted villain named Scabbo; the two of them pursue him so murderously through the book that he is at one point forced to tear off Scabbo's right hand with...