Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rain. But at the Rond-point de la Défense, just outside Neuilly, the rabble borrowed its tactics from French extremists in Algiers and Oran: slashing tires, overturning cars, shattering shop windows. Shots rang out and police, flailing night sticks and heavily weighted capes, clashed headlong with the mob...
...caliber bull. NBC's 87th Precinct began with a gimmick (the heroine of the initial episodes was the deaf-mute wife of a police detective) and will undoubtedly end on one-soon. Cain's Hundred (also NBC) has introduced Nicholas Cain (Mark Richman), onetime attorney for the mob, now bent on revenge for the mob murder of his fiancée and out to get-one by one-the 100 biggest worms that ever came out of an Apalachin...
...Illinois' Senator Stephen A. Douglas, with his massive head and dwarfish body, was a man in the middle; in his efforts to please North and South, he became anathema to both. Illinois' Republican Representative Owen Lovejoy had seen his older brother, an abolitionist, killed by an Alton mob, and he knew what he thought about slavery: "It has the violence of robbery, the blood and cruelty of piracy, it has the offensive and brutal lusts of polygamy, all combined and concentrated in itself...
Last Wednesday Thomas Hayden, former editor of the Michigan Daily, and Paul Potter, an officer of the National Student Association, were beaten up by a member of an angry mob in McComb, Miss., as a reward for their efforts to compile a neutral report on school integration. The incident, aside from adding to countless instances in which local Southern authorities have failed to provide adequate protection for such serious observers, sharply illustrates the scandal of national press coverage in the South...
...years had the Middle East seen so quick and clean a coup. Streaking, north from barracks outside Damascus, a slim rebel force of 20 tanks seized the capital at dawn. There were no mob scenes, no assassinations and almost no gunfire. When they tuned into Damascus radio at breakfast, Syrians learned that they had been "liberated" from the United Arab Republic, of which their country had been an uneasy part for nearly four years. In northern Syria, Aleppo radio went dead in the midst of the anthem, Beloved Nasser, Lover of Egypt and Syria -returning ten minutes later with...