Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Next morning a mob of some 350 teenagers from nearby Nicholls High School cut classes and charged toward McDonogh 19, roaring out a football-styled chant: "Two-Four-Six-Eight, We Don't Want to Integrate." Police steered the students away from their target, but segregationist tempers started to flare. That night 6,000 whites jammed into a White Citizen's Council rally at the municipal auditorium. They stamped and shouted as former State Senator Willie Rainach ranted warnings of the "conspiracy for the destruction of the white race," and Leander Perez, the notorious political boss of Plaquemines...
...special acts aimed to make truancy legal) to make another futile dash at McDonogh 19. Joined this time by a throng of adults, they headed downtown for a protest "interview" with Mayor Morrison. At city hall police again blocked the way, ordered them to disperse. Instead, the mob moved on to Carondelet Street, headquarters of the city's school board. There fire trucks backed up another police line, finally scattered them with billowing streams of water. All afternoon and evening, gangs of whites and Negroes prowled the narrow, ill-lit streets of the French Quarter, stoning cars, attacking luckless...
...Between mob politics and petty parliamentary factionalism-a dissident wing of Chang's own Democratic Party recently broke off to form a new party-South Korea was still a long way from re-establishing stable government. But along with Chang's new toughness, there was another hopeful straw in the wind. During the April riots against Rhee, thousands of cheering Seoul adults egged the students on. Last week, with rare exceptions, their elders watched the rampaging students in disapproving silence...
...been a striking change in the demeanor of Mr. Johnson. First there was his support of the Democratic platform, which earned him the hatred of his Texas constituents, and almost lost Kennedy the Texas electoral votes. Four days before the election, he was greeted in Dallas by an angry mob, with signs reading "I dreamed I went to Washington in my turncoat...
...Sabine women. The traditional founding date is April 21, 753 B.C.-but the historians have long been fidgety about the exactness of that anniversary. Last week modern Rome's Department of Antiquities and Fine Arts showed proof that Rome had inhabitants several hundred years before the Romulus mob ever touched a Sabine woman...