Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Police used dogs and horses to break up the pro-war mob. One dog mistakenly bit a police captain on the left...
...YORK, Nov. 14--A riotous mob screaming "Peace" battled police for control of Sixth Avenue tonight, as a violent anti-war demonstration against Secretary of State Dean Rusk spread half a mile along the busy midtown thorough-fare...
Shoulder to shoulder at some points, charging the mob at intervals, massed police cleared the avenue after two hours of melee that surged between 55th and 42nd streets. In its aftermath, Sixth Avenue was littered with debris...
...Director Stuart Rosenberg (The Defenders) distinguishes his first full-fledged feature by fragmenting his mob of a cast into many highly individual sufferers. His occasional failures are those of ambition, not laxness. The heavy-handed Christian symbolism-Luke is several times shown in crucified positions and has some unconvincing monologues with the God he doesn't believe in-is not only labored but out of style with the rest of the film. Rosenberg's treatment of evil, personified by the brutal prison guards, descends too often from portrayal to caricature. Still, there is enough left...
...both the Harvard faculty member and Rice point out, White is enormously good-natured. Tuesday night, after he had delivered his victory speech to the packed Sheraton-Plaza ballroom, a cordon of Boston police tried to move White and his family through the mob and to an elevator taking him to his private suite. The chain of police finally pushed and shoved through the cheering crowd of celebrators and got the official party into the elevator. The crowd began to move away from the elevator when suddenly the elevator door opened and the Boston police--red-faced--moved...