Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Next come the marchers, swinging along with mob gaiety and waving their xenophobic standards at the white faces in the embassy window. Then up roars the jeerleader-often a government in formation ministry man in a sound truck. The next arrival is apt to be a riot truck, probably provided-though for different purposes-by U.S. AID funds, its sides marked with the agency's symbol of clasped hands. Out come the carefully collected stores of cobble stones, brick halves and rocks. And then the fun begins: curses and shattered glass, bonfires and blazing auto mobiles, looted snack bars...
Before the Philadelphia case, those who advocated fencing had a fairly cogent argument. They claimed that prosecution, rather than sobering local citizens, often rallied them behind the defendants, who became town martyrs. This reasoning no longer holds weight. True, an angry mob of rednecks gathered to hiss the FBI agents upon the arrest of Sheriff Rainey. But that mob did not speak for the town. Rainey was no martyr to the ten Neshoba County clergymen, all of whom signed this statement: "There is an element of shame to all that there would be among us those accused of such...
...consultations, the show began. For four days demonstrators, streaming out of the National Buddhist Center, again turned Saigon into a battleground, hurling barrages of rocks and clubbing out numbered policemen. After the rioters threw seven Viet Cong-type concussion grenades, a paratroop officer emptied his pistol into a mob, killing a 15-year-old boy. The Buddhists issued an ultimatum demanding that the army and police keep hands off the demonstrators, and that Huong be forced down...
...clothes at Jax, Saks and Lord & Taylor, scorns "the group that thinks it's chic to whip over to Paris, sit around in hot, stuffy rooms and have 80 fittings." She is pleased with the trend to more and more formal dinners, which she prefers to "those mad mob scenes at cocktail parties," but is none too happy about the resultant need for a closetful of evening dresses that have to be originals and can only be worn once or twice. "I think it would be great to be able to rent them," she says wistfully...
Warding off blows as best he could, Garcia at last reached a couple of mounted policemen and shouted, over and over again, "Can you protect this girl?" The cops did nothing, and the mob closed in again, chanting obscenities, pummeling the newsman and clawing at the girl. Garcia managed to drag the girl another 30 yds. or so along the street before the mob stopped them. There seemed no escape, but at that moment a black car rolled up and the crowd fell back, afraid that more responsive police had arrived. The driver turned out to be a hospital official...