Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crowd does not stay with him. They shake his hand or catch a glimpse of him--and then move on. After he has walked a block and a half, he is relatively free from the pushing and shoving of a mob...
...minutes later the Crimson got another break. With a third down and long yardage situation on the Eagle nine, DiVito rolled out to pass, and hurried his throw to escape a mob of rushing linemen...
...Democratic counterpart, Hubert Humphrey, was getting even more heated up in the enthusiasms of the campaign. Outside San Jose, Calif., he halted his motorcade in mid-procession to change a wilted shirt for a fresh one. In Sharon, Pa., he lost his wristwatch and cuff links to a mob of squealing girls. At Erie, a contingent of 63 teen-age Demzelles formed a corridor between Hubert's platform and his limousine, begged to be allowed to kiss him. Each got her wish as Hubert beamingly worked his way down the line, allowing all 63 girls a peck. It looked...
...cheers or waving flags greeted her passage through town. But if the authorities expected a screaming, stone-throwing mob, there was none of that either. Only a handful of silent, staring people peered curiously between the ranks of police and scarlet-coated Mounties. Possibly through fear, possibly by design, Quebec seemed to be staying home, for the most part ignoring her altogether...
...exiled Dictator Juan Perón put De Gaulle precisely where he did not wish to be-smack in the middle of Argentina's violent internal politics. From Madrid, Perón told his supporters to "greet De Gaulle as you would greet me." That produced a mob scene and a rowdy attempt to link De Gaulle with Perón, presenting both as champions of the third force, independent of either East or West. The obvious purpose was to discomfit the regime of President Arturo Illia, which has cast its lot with...