Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Congo chaos, though his goal in the Congo, as Secretary Herter also told the A.B.A., is the "collapse of order.'' Washington expected Khrushchev, just before or after his spell in the U.S., to visit the Cuba of U.S.-hating Fidel Castro, who last week told a mob he was now planning to recognize Communist China...
...plate-glass window; a white woman and a Negro woman got into a hair-pulling match, and the town boiled over. In a sudden rush of business. Sears Roebuck sold 50 ax handles in 15 minutes. Sit-in demonstrators on their way downtown were met by a club-wielding mob. By the time the police got around to stopping the riot, Jacksonville was suffering from an epidemic of broken heads...
Outside Leopoldville's ugly new Palace of Culture, a mob of his countrymen waited for Congolese Premier Patrice Lumumba to arrive for the opening of the Congo's much-heralded African "summit" conference. As Lumumba drove up elegantly in an open Lincoln Continental once reserved for Belgium's King Baudouin, the crowd suddenly hoisted signs reading "Fascist"' and "Dictator," burst into the distinctive "whoop, whoop, whoop" that is the Congolese version of a boo. Seemingly undismayed by their jeers -and by the fact that his summit conference had attracted mainly minor bureaucrats instead...
...Stanleyville to demonstrate "how peaceful everything there is." a rumor swept the waiting crowd that Belgian paratroops were coming to grab the Premier. At that unfortunate moment, a U.S. Air Force Globemaster roared in to Stanleyville from Toronto, carrying Canadian signal equipment and personnel. Surrounding the plane, the howling mob dragged out the eight American crewmen, beating them with rifle butts and sticks. U.N. Ethiopian troops rescued three of the Americans and several bruised Canadians whom the Congolese had hauled off to prison. But in the meantime, other Congolese troops had invaded and sacked the U.N. headquarters in Stanleyville...
...Reader Mewhinney is not the first to confuse Nell with Louise, who served as the King's Catholic mistress. When an anti-Catholic mob in Oxford mistook Nell for her unpopular rival, the plain-speaking actress stuck her head out the carriage window and said, "Pray, good people, be civil; I am the Protestant whore...