Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...member of an unfraternal mob proceeded to hurl a brick through it, as others in the surging crowd had at a score of shops along Blue Hill Avenue in Boston's Roxbury Negro district during three straight nights of riots and looting. After three tense summers in which it had escaped the disturbances that plagued many other major U.S. cities, Boston finally succumbed to ghetto dementia...
...Mississippi, evidence does not always equal conviction, especially in civil rights cases. Still, acquittal seemed unlikely last week for eight white men on trial in U.S. District Judge Claude Clayton's court in Oxford. The cause of it all was a wild white mob that undeniably tried to halt school integration in Grenada last fall by flailing Negro schoolchildren with fists, feet, clubs and chains. According to the U.S. prosecutor, the defendants, including a justice of the peace, were part of that mob -and he had 25 witnesses to prove...
...name on New York City, tried to restore the jollity by offering the hard-nosed landlords a 15% rent increase. As the garbage mounted higher to draw flies and rats, Lindsay declared a health emergency and ordered sanitation crews to launch a cleanup. At the same time, an irate mob of some 600 landlords stormed down to city hall carrying toilet plungers, brooms, mops and angry signs, such as one that read: "Dictator Lindsay makes New York City a concentration camp...
...time, the tragedy of the Lindbergh baby's kidnaping (in March 1932) blotted out all other concerns, but fanned his hatred of the press. Lindbergh plainly felt that the merciless mob of newspapermen descending on his Hopewell, N.J., farmhouse had scared the kidnapers out of their wits and perhaps panicked them into killing his son. After the long ordeal of the trial, he secretly loaded his family on a freighter and fled to England, where they settled on the estate of Author-Critic Harold Nicolson...
...idea for a funny film-ten years ago. Unfortunately. The Jokers are by now low cards in a worn-out deck. The subject of countless scenarios from The Lavender Hill Mob to How to Steal a Million, the hoary story of the happy heist is as much a cliche as the tale of the gun fighter who wants to hang up his shooting irons. Brisk pacing might have helped, but Michael Winner's dilatory direction slows the picture's pulse. The only theft that comes off is Michael Crawford's-and he steals the show. Currently starring...