Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mob of approximately 2500 students started marching towards the zocalo or central plaza. Tanks, armed vehicles and battalions of soldiers sealed off the square from demonstrators to protect the National Palace. The demonstrators charged that Cabesa de Vaca, who had been gravely wounded when the young "shock troops" had charged, was being held captive by the police along with other student leaders. Today rumors swept the city that Vaca had been killed by police before the car he was being carried in had even reached its destination...
...Manhattan. Lewis was of comedy's Drinking School ("How long can I go on telling jokes and drinking? I can see the handwriting on the floor right now"). At the height of what he called "the Great Drought" (Prohibition), he was earning $650 a week performing in a mob-owned Chicago speakeasy. In 1927 he switched to a rival band's establishment, and Machine Gun Jack McGurn administered a lesson in loyalty that left Lewis with a fractured skull. Suffering from brain damage, Lewis underwent years of therapy before fully regaining his speech. By the late 1930s...
...from 62 to 20 between 1914 and 1928, the number of shore-bound Admiralty officials nearly doubled during the same period. *Naval scholars may remember that Sawyer, a sadist who mistreated his crew, mysteriously fell into a hatch, doing himself permanent injury, and soon thereafter was killed by a mob of Spanish prisoners who temporarily took over the Renown. It now appears that Hornblower both pushed Sawyer down the hatch and later cut his throat during the melee with the Spanish. It was all done, however, for the good of the ship and the British navy...
...Nothing else could have been done unless the police were to let the mob rule our capital," Mitchell proclaimed. Possibly true, but he seemed to make a triumph of what was at best an unfortunate bending of the law to meet necessity. He upheld it as a model to be followed in similar situations by other cities, and he also likened the Mayday protesters to Hitler's Brown Shirts. However troublesome Rennie Davis' legions were, for Mitchell to damn them as Nazis was hardly more precise than for them to label him, as they habitually do, a fascist...
...proven irresistible. After being picketed and besieged by mail, the Justice Department became the league's first convert. Attorney General John Mitchell agreed to deport the Mafia-as a word, that is. In a confidential memo the Mitchell kiss of death was to be reserved not for the Mob, but for all Justice Department employees who used the terms Mafia and Cosa Nostra officially. The league subsequently persuaded the film makers of The Godfather, which is about practically nothing but the Mafia, to excise the hated term from their screenplay. That was a feat roughly comparable to composing...