Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lonesome victory meant nothing, coming, as it did, at the end of the longest losing streak in modern baseball history (23 games). Through a rainfogged cabin window, Phillie Pitcher Frank Sullivan peered apprehensively out at the ramp, where a crowd of 250 damp Philadelphians stood like a lynch mob. "Get off the plane at one-minute intervals," Sullivan advised his mates, only half in jest. "That way, they can't get us all in one burst...
...tributed the U.C.N.'s Santiago newspaper. Martinez and Clisante had helped transport people to a U.C.N. rally at Puerto Plata only the day before they died. When Clisante's body was turned over to his relatives, the head was beaten almost to a pulp. An enraged mob burst into the hospital morgue, draped a Dominican flag over the corpse, and paraded it through the streets, crying "Liberty! Down with dictatorship!" Another crowd started pegging rocks at police, were finally dispersed when the cops fired over their heads...
...much anthologized Kneel to the Rising Sun, a grim and eloquent expression of disgust that ends with another dead Negro. One of the things the author says, without raising his voice, is that men will wince at the torture of a dog and then join a shotgun mob. It is not a story that can be read calmly, but it is written calmly and well...
...protest petition circulated. Ninety-six families refused to pay rent unless the town council backed down. But the council stood firm. "We are not submitting to mob rule," said one councilor. "These colored people are with us, and we must integrate them." Agreed another: "We have a moral as well as a legal obligation to house this family...
...Algerian seaport of Bōne, F.L.N. terrorists tossed a grenade into a hotel, killing a guest, and in revenge a European mob surged through the streets and lynched the first two Moslems it encountered. In Oran. Sidi-bel-Abbés and Constantine, European counterterrorists exploded plastic bombs. At the U.N., the Afro-Asian nations lined up 46 of the 50 nations needed to call a special session of the U.N. General Assembly to discuss Tunisia's charge of French aggression at Bizerte. Boatloads of thousands of penniless French refugees, fleeing the possibility of renewed war in Tunisia...