Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Democrats were responsible for the mob-wrecking of the anti-Menderes newspaper, Demokrat Izmir. (Menderes' direct complicity was not proved; yet the state prosecutor demanded the death penalty...
...Paolo suburb to hunt for "suspected arms," shot down 33 Africans at random. A government spokesman later reported the raid proudly. Fortnight ago in Luanda, a country coffee planter spotted two Africans he believed had been with a rebel band that burned his plantation. He led a pick-up mob of whites down Luanda's main street. The mob literally tore one man limb from limb, pitched the other screaming off a six-story roof to crash through the candy-striped umbrella of a sidewalk cafe. The police casually watched...
...before, even though, from the earliest days in the Sierra Maestra 28 months ago, he had made it clear that revolutionary movements, coming to power in turmoil, need not-and dare not -call immediate elections. "Do we need elections?" Castro demanded of the crowd below him. Obediently the mob roared back...
Backed against a wall, the visiting Pittsburgh teacher barely escaped a thundering mob of moppets carrying chairs. A second herd crashed by, lugging lightweight desks; then came a teacher, pushing a bookcase on wheels. Instead of vanishing into classrooms, the kids camped in noisy huddles all over one huge room. With teachers hopping from huddle to huddle, the scene sometimes took on the look of a Red Cross disaster station, but it was routine teaching at the free-form grade school in Carson City, Mich...
Sweet young Wheaton girls, at least 150 of them, strung up Fidel Castro in effigy last night. Taking care not to sell their madras skirts, the lynch mob danced 'round the hanging-tree-Maypole, staying "God Bless America," and other patriotic songs...