Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...State Department later explained that it is U.S. policy, as a rule, to deny asylum to foreigners in embassies abroad unless the person is in "imminent danger from mob violence." Josef Cardinal Mindszenty, Roman Catholic Primate of Hungary, was considered to qualify "under exceptional circumstances" when he won sanctuary in the U.S. legation during the 1956 uprising in Budapest, where he still lives...
...breeches." The General answers him in a curt note to the Queen: "My dear young lady: It is evident that Britain is the sick man of Europe." In Washington, a vengeful group of Rhodes scholars led by Dean Rusk tears the Mona Lisa to pieces. The Paris mob finds an elderly American lady who looks like Grandma Moses, and shreds her in retaliation. De Gaulle challenges Rusk to a duel...
...Senghor-controlled Parliament. At the news, Dia sent rifle-carrying police into the chamber, ordered it dissolved. But Senghor called in his own band of paratroops; they promptly surrounded Dia in his administration building. When the frantic Premier attempted to speak through a loudspeaker, a pro-Senghor mob drowned him out by playing thundering tomtom records, full-blast. At last, Dia surrendered, and was led away to captivity...
...first during the 1952 campaign, when he abandoned it to deal with a prison riot back in Illinois. From a hilltop I could see him, a somewhat incongruous figure in a brown Brooks Brothers hat and a Chesterfield coat, walk into the prison courtyard and calmly sway a frenzied mob into returning to their cells with a warning that he would order the guards to fire once at the ceiling and then to fire directly at the rioters. The fusillade aimed at the ceiling was enough; the strike was over...
River Refuge. A mob of some 2,000 Negroes, most of them ranging in age from about twelve to 20, rushed across the field to attack the St. John's band and rooting section. Some of them wielded chair legs, broken bottles, lead pipes and knives. Three teaching brothers...