Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Four Days of Naples. On Sept. 8, 1943, the day Badoglio surrendered to Eisenhower, the lid of a manhole lifted hesitantly in a Neapolitan alley and a draft dodger squinted at the unaccustomed sunlight. "La 'uerr' ê finood'!" the mob above him bellowed in delirium. The war was over for Sicily, si. But for Naples it was far from over. On Sept. 12, the Panzers rumbled into town as the Italian garrison stumbled off in all directions. Then flying squads of German soldiers burst into the Vomero, the city's principal slum, and gun-butted...
...defunct United Arab Republic. Strings of Ramadan lights outlined the mosques and minarets, and a crowd of 20,000 jammed the square protected from the cold night air by a siwan, a "hall" roofed and walled by brightly colored canvas. "Union! Union! Union! Nasser! Nasser! Nasser!" roared the mob. What it got was a little less than Nasser had hoped for. The leaders of the Iraqi delegation to the celebration, Deputy Premier Ali Saleh Saadi and Foreign Minister Talib Hussein Shabib, were cordial enough, but they were far from specific. Saadi dutifully paid tribute to Egypt as the "mother republic...
...spring of 1948, two formidable ladies met over a luncheon table at Romanoff's restaurant in Hollywood. "When she walked in," recalls one of the other, "every chin in the place dropped. Hasty telephone calls brought in a mob of patrons. Nobody moved until we left arm in arm two hours later." After a decade of scorched-earth warfare, Louella ("Lollipop") Parsons had sat down to public lunch with her rival, Hedda Hopper...
Justice Department spokesmen had a ready explanation. Last fall three Negroes applied for admission to all-white Alabama, but so far they have been blocked by state authorities. Fearing a future integration showdown similar to the violent mob efforts to keep James Meredith out of the University of Mississippi, Justice asked for aerial photographs to help federal marshals prepare their strategy and tactics in advance. Said a Justice official: "There was sort of a critique on the University of Mississippi-a re-examination of everything we did there in case that kind of thing ever happened again. The marshals thought...
With their hero gone, the crowd hurled rocks at the National Guardsmen assigned to keep order. One Guardsman fired his pistol into the air. The mob charged, and the Guardsmen triggered a warning burst from their tommy-guns. The mob set fire to a bus and charged again. The Guardsmen aimed lower. Three rioters were killed, nine wounded...