Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nation's No. 1 hood, Anthony Joseph ("Tony") Accardo, 54, alias Joe Batters, is the very model of a modern mob general. He is popularly credited with half a dozen murders dating from his days as gunman to the late Al Capone, but has never spent a night in jail. Unlike Capone, whom he eventually succeeded as grand vizier of Chicago crime, Tony cleverly paid his taxes on enough income from gambling and "miscellaneous sources" (more than $1,000,000 between 1940 and 1955) to justify his $500,000 mansion in suburban River Forest, Ill. and his lavish vacations...
...settlers wrecked buses, smashed windows, and fought a pitched battle with police. To clear the streets of demonstrators, police charged again and again, swinging rifle butts and truncheons. The rioters threw stones, pavement blocks and tin cans until dispersed by tear gas. Regrouping a few blocks on, the mob swept down on the U.S. Information Service office and wrecked it for the second time in two years. By the time darkness halted the fighting, 100 were wounded, including 70 cops...
...good boy." To celebrate, he declared a two-day national holiday, a 20% cut in income taxes and amnesty for 98 prisoners. Cannons boomed a 41-gun salute, and Teheran residents poured into the streets. When the Shah tried to leave the hospital that afternoon, a shouting, jostling mob surrounded his car and forced it to a halt. Police had to unlimber fire hoses to restore order. Farah Diba had succeeded where two before her had failed. The Shah's first wife, Fawzia, sister of Egypt's then King Farouk, bore him a daughter but no son, and he divorced...
From Haymarket Square (where Kennedy admirers were setting off scores of loud firecrackers), the streets were again packed solid with sign-brandishing partisans. In front of the Garden, Kennedy stood in his open car to wave up to a crowd at least 200 feet square. The mob overflowed into adjoining side streets and the motorcade had to inch its way up to a side entrance...
Stone decried the bellicose attitudes of Senator Kennedy and vice-President Nixon which have "whipped up a lynch mob spirit" against Cuba. The "brutal, inhuman stereotypes" of Castro are wholly untrue and serve to poison not only international affairs but the existence of free government in the U.S., he asserted...