Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...marriage has broken down--his wife (Anouk Aimee), aware of his infidelities with a dull, bovine mistress, is ready to ask for a separation; and his creativity is at an end--he cannot get started on the film he is directing. His friends are falling away, though a mob of admirers follows him almost everywhere, firing inane questions that melt into a babble of noise...
...high school students appeared carrying Panama's national emblem. At that point, say U.S. officials, "there was no more trouble than you'd expect at a Yale-Princeton football game." The students were told to go home and headed peacefully back across the line. But there a mob was ready and waiting -older men, this time, including Castroites and ultranationalists, and armed with guns and Molotov cocktails. A cry went up that the Panamanian flag had been trampled by Americans-and the U.S. was plunged into the gravest crisis in Latin American relations since the Bay of Pigs...
...after the loss was discovered, wailing pilgrims bearing mourning flags braved bitter cold to march on the mosque. Then grief turned to fury. Next day a screaming mob burned and looted through the capital until police broke up the crowds by firing over and, sometimes, under their heads, killing two and wounding several other pilgrims. Though officials feared the excitement might provoke violence between Hindu and Moslem communities, on New Year's Day worshipers of both faiths paraded peacefully together, Hindus chanting "Har Har Mahadev!" (Praise to God), Moslems crying "Allah O Akbar!" (God is great...
...papal entourage wheeled into the square outside the Damascus Gate, a wave of humanity broke through the guards and surrounded the Pope's car. Newsmen, predictably, were in the lead, but priests, nuns, children, legionnaires and tourists were swept along by the tide. For nearly 30 minutes, the mob blocked the way-cheering so loudly that startled Israelis even risked snipers' bullets by peering across the well-guarded boundary between the two sectors of the city...
Just before he reached the gate, the Pope squeezed out of his car and was immediately hemmed in against his guards by nearly 5,000 people. It was a friendly mob-roaring out "Long live the Pope" in a score of languages, pelting him with cologne-scented water from the Jordan-but the tough legionnaires treated it like an Israeli attack force. Swinging rifle butts and even olive branches snatched from waiting children, the soldiers tried to clear a path so the Pope could walk in prayer along the shabby, bazaar-littered Via Dolorosa, venerated as the street along which...