Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cops advanced. Ten yards from the marchers, they halted, donned gas masks. There was a pop, a thud, a flash of orange, then a smoky cloud. Soon, dozens of red, white and blue canisters loaded with tear gas and an antiriot irritant were sailing smack into the mob. Marchers scattered in confusion and pain...
...Harvard has so many good players it could play mob soccer and win today; it won't be until the next two games, with Amherst and Williams, that an evaluation of the 4-3-3, and with it Harvard's chances in the Ivy League race, will be possible.Right Wing DUDLEY BLODGETT...
...disturbance a few doors north of Division on Damen Avenue, a patrolman shot and wounded a youth who pulled a revolver-but word spread that the boy had been unarmed. An emotional crowd gathered and soon raged out of control. When carloads of police arrived with dogs, the mob ignited in fury...
...trouble began when 1,500 building-trade workers, striking against a 2% cut in their vacation pay, gathered for a demonstration and scuffled with local police. On the second day the Provos made their appearance, and a mob of thousands swept toward the center of town, tearing up the pavement, uprooting parking meters, smashing windows, burning cars, looting stores and completely overwhelming Amsterdam's 1,900-man police force, which always seemed to be at the wrong place at the wrong time. Though the workers returned to their jobs the next morning, the Provos kept up the riot...
...condemn, but to show his concern for all people." Indeed, Billy Graham, 47, aroused considerable concern when he showed up in London's fleshpotty parish. Swinging through a third week of his crusade in Blighty, the evangelist had planned an hour's walk through Soho, but a mob of 2,000 zealots swarmed all over him just across the way from the Old Compton Street Cinema (current attraction: Orgy at Lil's Place). A stripper named Brigitte St. John screamed: "Billy, what do you think of my miniskirt?" and flung herself onto his car. As the reverend...