Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Days at Peking. The Boxer Rebellion gets the wide-screen treatment, and the result is a full-scale war. Among the foreign devils who make the Chinese so mad are David Niven, Ava Gardner, Charlton Heston and Paul Lukas; there are fireworks and plenty of blood mixed with the mob scenes, and the sets are Bronstonian in magnificence...
...understand why my father had me piling rocks up in the hall by the front door. The curtain was down, and he stood behind the door with a rifle. If memory serves correctly, next to him, also with a rifle, stood his white neighbor and friend. The mob came-perhaps 50 or more. A woman neighbor from a block and a half down the street stopped them and, wagging her finger under the leader's nose, said, "Don't you dare bother that colored family down the street, or you are going to have trouble with...
...week's end the New Lavender Hill Mob, as Fleet Street inevitably christened it, was still at large-probably, guessed Scotland Yard, holed up within metropolitan London. Unlike Alec Guinness' mob, which melted down its loot into solid-gold Eiffel Tower souvenirs and shipped them to Paris, the real-life quartet probably aimed to export its bullion to India, where gold fetches twice the world market price. "I see no reason why they should be caught," said one expert. "They have a market for it all ready. It's that kind...
...calculated hate, planned unrest, useless destruction of private and public property and needless agitation between I colored and white races in Birmingham wei only made worse by your insidious reporting of this situation. Why, oh why, do you condone mob violence by the Negroes and yet deplore mob violence by whites? No reference was made by your reporter to the pillaging and looting of a private store by Negroes before they unmercifully burned this store and then stoned the firemen in an attempt to prevent them from controlling the fire. Mob violence under any guise or for any cause, just...
Again the "Great Nothing riot" seemed to falter, but someone yelled "To the 'Cliffe" and the mob, by then more than a thousand, raced through the Cambridge Common and down Garden St. toward the Quad...