Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...start of the conflict, Douglas MacArthur II clearly underestimated its potential dangers to the U.S. Though he warned, "I don't exclude physical violence and mob scenes," he admittedly did not foresee the possible mobbing of Dwight Eisenhower himself. The miscalculation was understandable. When Ike's trip to Japan was planned five months ago, it was assumed that he would arrive in To kyo fresh from Moscow, impregnable in the mantle of a peacemaker and relaxer of East-West tensions. Another misadventure MacArthur could not reasonably have been expected to foresee was how fatally Nobusuke Kishi would play...
...summoned a Cabinet meeting in his official residence across from the white granite Diet building. As the 17 ministers assembled shortly after midnight, the windows were reddened by the glare of flames from police trucks set ablaze by 14,000 rioters outside. They could hear the howl of the mob as it acclaimed the martyrdom of a 22-year-old coed named Michiko Kamba, who had been trampled as the stone-throwing mob reeled backward under the charge of 4,000 nightstick-swinging policemen...
What Unrest? At a news conference announcing the cancellation of Ike's visit, Kishi angrily blamed the situation on a "minority mob." With their peculiar obtuseness, Japanese reporters murmured something about widespread "social unrest." Snapped Kishi: "There are baseball games being played right now to capacity crowds. Movie theaters have packed houses. Here in Tokyo, the Ginza is full of happy-looking pedestrians." Kishi spoke the truth. The Wednesday night riot that frightened his Cabinet was confined to a small area around the Diet. At the height of the uproar, there was a brisk and continuous flow of taxis...
Jordan's Crown Prince Mohammed, 20, madcap brother of worldly and fairly wise King Hussein, who is four years older tooled through the crowded streets of Amman with his aide in his car and bowled over a hapless pedestrian. A hostile mob converged on Mohammed's royal presence. Somebody in the car started shooting, killed at least one, winged several others. Mohammed, in a bad version of a Middle Eastern western, then fled to his brother's palace. Hussein, brought close to the ignition point by his brother's antics, rushed off to condole the bereaved...
...have literally surrendered their papers to the hundreds of young liberal "intellectuals" in Japanese newsrooms. Espousing no cause but that of full-throated antagonism to the party in power, these leftists not only incite to riot but often themselves join the rioters. Last week, when a part of the mob broke off to charge police guarding the Diet building, the sortie was led by a phalanx of screaming, pole-waving newsmen...