Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beautiful Cat. Most slum dwellers also regard the mayor as their advocate in time of trouble. Rushing to Harlem's barrio, the Spanish-speaking quarter, after last month's violent outbreak, Lindsay was immediately surrounded by a loud mob of Puerto Ricans-each of whom wanted to be the first to tell him exactly what had gone wrong...
Forlorn but dignified, the Plaza Hotel faced the mob. All morning long the radio had been urging every potential truant in New York to show up at 59th Street and Fifth. ("The Beatles are now over Newfoundland; touchdown minus 71 minutes on our Beatles Countdown.") By two o'clock there were 3,000 girl teenagers, 1,000 boy teenagers, and 13 press agents...
...last Englishman to meet with such boundless dual success--popular and critical--was Charles Dickens. A New York mob once trampled eight of its own rushing to get the last installment of The Old Curiosity Shop off the boat from England. The critics took years, however, to catch up with the mobs in enthusiasm and to discover what lay beneath Dickens' charismatic storytelling. The remarkable thing about Sgt. Pepper is that it received both popular and critical acclaim instantly. So great today is the pressure to appreciate that critics rushed to hail the album as "entertainment verging...
...such shaky ground are the combatants met. Ultimately, after Poitier has braved a lynch mob and a gang of chain-swinging toughs on his way toward his goal, Steiger digs down to his inner resources and musters a jowly half-smile and handshake to send Poitier...
...Writing in the new Journal of Urban Law, Frank S. Sengstock declares that cities are derelict if they don't initiate preventive programs or if their police don't use established professional techniques of riot control and suppression. "There is a substantial need to indemnify victims of mob disorders," he comments. "Sovereign immunity is playing its finale. Fundamental principles of common law warrant the conclusion that the injured has a right to sue a municipal corporation for damages committed by a mob when the local unit of government acts heedlessly in the face of knowledge of the potential...