Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Algeria were either in opposition or sitting on the fence. Challe, who had hoped to win by a bloodless coup d'état, collapsed. Salan made a last effort to keep the Revolt of the Generals going?again from a balcony overlooking the Forum, where a supercharged Algiers mob was again screaming that it had been betrayed. But Salan's words could not be heard?someone had cut the microphone wires...
...Kentucky, was elected Speaker on his first day in the House. That year, 70 of the House's 116 members were new, and Clay appealed to the rookies' thirst for new-blood leadership. Before Clay, the Speaker generally acted as a feeble referee over an undisciplined House mob. A stern taskmaster, Clay brought order and respectability to the House. Members were forbidden to put their feet on their desks, and the hound dog of Virginia's eccentric John Randolph was banished from the chamber on orders of the Speaker. Clay refused to be a mere presiding officer...
CORE & Crackpots. Adding to the dissidence is the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), primarily a Northern organization of whites and Negroes that makes only occasional forays into the South under the leadership of James Farmer. It organized the first Freedom Ride from Washington to New Orleans, but withdrew after mob violence in Birmingham and let Snick's dedicated campaigners ride on to Jackson, Miss. The group suffers fragmented leadership and a membership described by an N.A.A.C.P. leader as "a bunch of loonybirds and crackpots...
...Little Booze. At 3, the revolving door spun like a roulette wheel and in tumbled the mob. At 3:15 the bar was jammed three, four, five, six deep, and the noise was like a rocket's roar. It was just like the old days. "Lemme hear them tills ring!" Toots yelled. To his eleven-year-old son Rory, Shor called "C'm on, little Toots! Drink up! Have a little booze!" A young Roman Catholic priest entered diffidently, and Shor bounded over to him to greet him with a hug and a kiss. It was "Father Bill...
...held out longest was Rodriguez Echaverria. He ordered out hired thugs and government sound trucks to try to woo the mob and break the strike. Then Rodriguez Echaverria stiffly rejected as ''inadmissible" a compromise plan that Puppet Balaguer quietly proposed to Dr. Viriato Fiallo, head of the opposition U.C.N., under which Balaguer would resign in favor of a Swiss-style Council of State...