Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...five-piece tuxedoed orchestra began to play the old marching song, For Boston, For Boston, We Sing That Proud Refrain, and the clerk, in his old-fashioned salt-and-pepper wool suit and scruffy black shoes, shuffled on down to the dance floor to join the jigging mob. The mood at Hicks headquarters was one of vindication and of cockiness, a feeling not too familiar to the people there...
Manhattan's sidewalk spectators are getting to be fairly ho-hum about movies shot on location, but this one was a real buzzer. Star of the film was Mia Farrow, 22, whose mob quotient has gone up considerably since she married Whosis, and furthermore didn't she seem to be-giggle blush-just a teensy bit preggers? Yes she did, and in no mood to dillydally about it, either. One day she was barely bulgy, the next she seemed six months along, and within a week she was 14 months pregnant. By this time even the most motherly...
...choking sensation that incapacitate its victim as effectively as a blow on the head or a hand on the throat. Yet the chemical wears off after about 30 minutes, leaving no lasting aftereffects. In New Haven, Police Chief Francis McManus found it "highly effective" in quelling the mob. The Mace has also been use ful in everyday police work. In the year it has been used in Columbus, Ohio, says Chief Robert Baus, attacks on policemen have dropped...
...prisoners had been routinely released, hundreds of Red Guards pushed past acquiescent Red Army and police guards. They crowded into the British diplomatic compound, shouting Mao-think slogans in English and French and throwing Molotov cocktails. Inside were 23 British diplomats, women and children. The mob set the chancellery afire, forcing the British to come out; nine of them, including Hopson, were beaten and kicked before being turned loose...
...mob was organized by President Joseph Mobutu's Mouvement Populaire Revolutionnaire, the only legal political party in the Congo. Outside the Belgian embassy in Kinshasa, it began to work up quite a head of steam for its "spontaneous anti-imperialist demonstration." Primary object was to protest the seven-week-old rebellion of the Congo's white mercenaries, who were fired by Mobutu and subsequently captured the border city of Bukavu by force. Loudspeaker trucks promised immediate satisfaction to all loyal Congolese right there in Kinshasa. Before the shouting was over, announced the sound trucks, the Belgian, French...