Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Medals. The period of mob violence in Ulster seems to have ended. Instead, the battle is now between the British army, some 13,500 troops drawn from 20 different regiments, and I.R.A. gunmen. There are only about 500 of the gunmen, but they are well armed with tommy guns, rifles and gelignite, and they hold the initiative with their hit-and-run raids. "It's bloody Dodge City in there," said a corporal of the Green Howards regiment on a midnight patrol at the edge of the Ardoyne district, "full of cowboys wanting to be heroes. They...
...Brown the lead. 19-17, late in the third period with his second long, wind-carried field goal of the day. Tyler's kick so thoroughly excited his teammates at the thought of finally winning a game that they poured off the bench and on to the field to mob the soccer-style place kicker...
Surprise followed surprise, as Beck quickly plunged the group into a bluesey version of Dylan's "Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You." When Beck went into a slide guitar solo that proved that Mick Taylor still has a lot to learn, the audience threatened to mob the stage. Beck sensed the crowd's enthusiasm and fanned the flames as he went into his classic version of "Morning Dew." As vocalist Bob Tench is no Rod Stewart, the song was lacking something...
Next day the Saigon police chief confirmed what many had already suspected: most of the mob outside the church had been government militiamen. In a crude attempt to justify the attack, he said that McGovern had been unwittingly meeting with "Viet Cong agents." The Senator's demand for an apology from Thieu went coldly unheeded...
...week of increasing violence, four more British soldiers and one policeman were killed by gunmen. Protestant youths hurled fire bombs into a bus carrying handicapped Catholic schoolchildren, three of whom were hospitalized with burns. Another crowd set fire to a Catholic school, and a Catholic mob exploded a bomb outside a Protestant youth club...