Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...screaming idiots can throw a group of people into a panic. This was the TV coverage of the United Nations spectator demonstration by a group of Lumumba supporters. This is the Communistic psychology in action. This is how to convert a crowd of thousands into a raging mob of head-bashing, flag-burning, window-breaking "supporters" of a cause. This is our price of tolerance. When will we realize that those who are out to destroy us, or who support those who are out to destroy us, should not be tolerated...
...tribe, and his opponents cannily ran a prominent Kikuyu doctor against him in his Nairobi district, where Kikuyus made up the bulk of the voters. It was no contest. Mboya won, 31,407 to 2,668. Young (30), victorious Tom was hoisted to the shoulders of the mob, as 6,000 shrieked "Uhuru!" (freedom...
...least a big step forward. But that will still leave the toughest nut to crack-the white settlers. In the Northern Rhodesian capital of Lusaka, the five elected members of the governing executive council, all members of Welensky's United Federal Party, resigned in protest. An extremist white mob met in a Lusaka movie house, angrily blamed its troubles on the United States Information Service, which had been 'Inflaming Africans." Warned Welensky: "The gong has only sounded for the first round...
...seaport of Jaffna, an angry mob of 3,000 Tamils, a linguistic and religious minority, battled police in protest against the substitution of Singhalese for English as Ceylon's official language. There were other problems. Mrs. Bandaranaike had been confronted with a sitdown strike when she forced the nationalization of 700 Roman Catholic schools. Opposition parties in Parliament offered a motion of no confidence, hoping to bring her down, charging the government with trying to protect M.P.s who had been found guilty of bribery and corruption. The cost of living rises steadily...
...something that will make the world weep," he instructed his librettists. In their adaptation of Carlo Gozzi's 18th century play, as in the Puccini score, there are more hints of harshness and modernity than in any of his other works-shrieking harmonies; a howling, fickle mob; even political irony, as when the three comic but cruel ministers complain that the graveyards are full because of too many executions. And yet, try as he might, Puccini could not write ugliness. He remained, happily, a prisoner of his melodious gift, and tenderness keeps breaking into the nervous, jagged moods...