Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That brought a mob of students to the presidential palace. Police panicked, fired into the mob, killing three and wounding 32. Next, angry knots of leftists stormed through the streets, looking for cops. They found three, one of whom was gunned down, another stripped naked and brained with a boulder. The third was soaked in gasoline and burned alive. When Caminero still refused to leave, the left called a general strike...
...call the Electoral College "an undemocratic anachronism" [Jan. 28]. It is, indeed. The founding fathers gave us a republic, in which the franchise was entrusted to qualified voters, not a democracy, with the franchise in the hands of the unqualified mob, which they mistrusted. Benjamin Franklin, when asked what kind of government the framers of the Constitution had devised, replied, "A republic, if you can keep it." If we were wise, we would keep...
...quickly began fanning the demonstrators' emotions, calling for secession from India and crying that only a bloody revolution could solve Kerala's problems. With things getting out of control, the other parties urged their followers to return to their homes. It was too late. Near Cannanore, a mob of 10,000 stopped a freight train and looted it. In the capital of Trivandrum an angry throng broke through police lines, then wrecked a railway station. Elsewhere rioters tore up rail track, built barricades across roads and highways, taunted police with the cry: "Shoot us or give us rice...
...three days New York City dailies played the story big. Column after column was devoted to Enrique Negrón, a doughty little (5 ft. 5 in.) Bronx grocer who went to the aid of a police-man threatened by an ugly mob, and got stabbed in the back for his trouble. Then, last May, Negrón was released from the hospital and sent home. The papers forgot...
...ranging from clerk in a life insurance company to a crewman on the Staten Island ferry. He settled for a temporary job as assistant circulation manager for the Spanish-language daily El Tiempo; but as a onetime seaman, he is considering returning to sea, where he can escape neighborhood mob scenes. Meanwhile, his fair-weather neighbors have suffered a change of heart. Once again, they are speaking...