Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...party, Annie pushed him toward the mob of people and shrieked, "Look, gang. It's a Hahvuhd man." Trying to pull it off, Wellington affected a graceful bow, but he received only blank stares from the assemblage. Wellington began to feel uneasy, and looked around the room for Eugenie. She was talking animatedly to two large male specimens who seemed to keep their eyes fixed on the region between her chin and waist...
...strikes must go on at any cost. A thousand rowdies broke from the crowd and rampaged through the streets, smashing the glass facade of the railway station, overturning police cars. For the first time, troops opened fire to quell the trouble; by the time they had driven the mob to the banks of the Meuse River, two strikers had been wounded by their bullets...
...Baudouin's presence did nothing to soothe the strikers. Next day a rampaging mob of 5,000 clashed with saber-swinging police in front of the Sabena airlines of fice; in the crowd, someone pulled a pistol and fired wildly, fatally wounding one striker, injuring others. It was the first serious bloodshed, but perhaps not the last, since the Socialists swore to keep the protests going indefinitely...
...single mob formed. Yet much of what they saw in Little Rock, New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Atlanta, Tuskegee and Montgomery was little better than they expected. They were heartened to meet white moderates, disheartened at their caution. "The Southern liberal is the only one who can save the South, but he's afraid of leading," said Kenyan Economist James Maina, 28. They admired the "vitality" of Negro sit-in leaders...
...first objective, a fur shop. Naturally, everything that can possibly go wrong goes as wrong as possible, but somehow the charitable criminals manage to creak home with half their haul-the other half is absentmindedly left in a taxi. Stumbling and bumbling from success to hilarious success, the mink mob is soon established as the despair of Scotland Yard and the hope of innumerable philanthropies-including the police orphanage. At the fade, four suspicious characters, dressed in the Renaissance knickers worn by guards in the Tower of London, can be seen slouching purposefully toward the Crown Jewels...