Word: mobbing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...demand a vote of confidence in Parliament last week, Greek Premier George Anthanassiadis-Novas quoted the author of The Frogs, to describe the man who sought to destroy him. Ex-Premier George Papandreou, said Novas, in the words of Aristophanes, was just another demagogue apt for "rousing the mob and terrorizing those who hold contrary opinions." The chorus of frogs was provided by 145 Deputies of Papandreou's (and Novas') Center Union Party, who, instead of croaking brekeke-kex-koax-koax, hooted "Judas!" and "Traitor!" at Novas and his ministers. At the end of the debate, they voted...
...Revolution!" As the mob chanted "Fi-del! Fi-del!" beads of sweat matted Castro's unkempt beard in the broiling afternoon sun. For a Castro speech, it was mercifully short: three hours. Inevitably, he mocked the OAS, upbraided the U.S. Neither the U.S. nor the OAS, Castro boomed, could stop his chief export: Communism. "We call ourselves fighters for Communism! We want revolution; we want the liberation of the peoples of Latin America...
Thousands of students marched through Stadium and University streets, arms locked, chanting "Pa-pan-dre-ou," and passing out leaflets exhorting, "Young men of Athens, help us for the triumph of democracy. Down with traitors!" Finally, the demonstrations became riots, and police were forced to quell a stone-throwing mob with clubs and tear...
...cars arrived outside Caamaño's headquarters, hostile crowds closed around them chanting, "With or without the OAS, we will win!" At a rally in the rebel area, he shouted to a crowd of 8,000: "We will never lose!" "Yankees out! Yankees out!" chanted the mob. The rebel newspaper Patria-Fatherland-called the Americans "the direct inheritors of the Nazism of Adolf Hitler...
...bedside manner includes a willingness to accommodate foreign aid critics whenever it is possible without compromising the program itself. Thus, he worked with the Administration in writing amendments expressing the will of Congress not to give U.S. aid to Nasser's United Arab Republic, to countries that permit mob attacks on American property, or to countries that allow their ships to send goods to North Viet Nam that help the Communist economy and war effort...