Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...avoid mob scenes and gatecrashing, tickets will not be sold at the door. All dances run from 8:30 to 12 p.m. at Memorial Hall. George Graham's orchestra will provide music...
...diction and easy projection, turns the relatively minor role of the Bishop of Carlisle into a major contribution. Helped by inspired writing to be sure, his long denunciation of Bolingbroke is superb acting. There is something noble and thrilling about an individual in the right willing to oppose the mob in the wrong even though he may be scaling his own doom. Thus has it always been: Antigone, Saint Joan, Sir Thomas More, Dr. Thomas Stockmann, Martin Luther King. Carlisle is of their company. In the play's final scene, Bolingbroke sentences Carlisle to live as a perpetual anchorite...
...revolt started one morning a fortnight ago, when restless crowds began calling for food and denouncing Castro. Before long, thousands of people jammed seven blocks of the business district. When a loudspeaker truck appeared, urging all to go home, promising that food would soon be abundant, the mob overturned the truck, forced the driver to yell, "Down with Communism!" The riot was not quelled until crack troops arrived and occupied the town after sporadic shooting. The toll of wounded or dead is not known; an estimated 400 demonstrators were jailed...
...Daily mob scenes in Buenos Aires are part of a revolution in food retailing that is lowering prices and raising living standards around the world. From Singapore to São Paulo, the old corner grocery tradition of small volume and high markups is being washed out by the made-in-U.S.A. idea of mass marketing...
...Geneva Exchange-which does not restrict floor trading to member brokers-was a churning mob scene as panicky investors rushed onto the floor to sell their stocks in person. On the Zurich Exchange, shares in the blue-chip Crédit Suisse slid from...