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Word: mobbing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...final crash, the mob violence unleashed on a cult hero hints at others to be remembered. Maybe the Guru Maharah Ji's rock band will fail. Maybe Werner Erhard will marry Linda Renstadt. And maybe, thinking back on absent friends, "Dad" could have blown it. Jonestown could have gone the other...

Author: By Thomas M. Levenson, | Title: One More For Keith | 5/2/1979 | See Source »

That's the George Scott who suffered through strings of strikeouts last summer, who listened to mob howls of "Boooooomer" fade to flat, drunken curses: "Fat nigger." And it's the Boomer who didn't want to talk about racism...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: A Diet, Two Hits and a Slide Resurrect 'Boomer' | 4/24/1979 | See Source »

...punctuated by occasional outbursts of violence. Highways have been blocked, and government officials have been locked up in their offices by angry steel workers. In the ugliest incident so far, seven riot policemen were wounded by rifle fire two weeks ago as they tried to control a rock-hurling mob in the town of Denain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Steel, Surgery and Survival | 3/26/1979 | See Source »

...score--two kilos of heroin. His carrier is Nolte, a Nietzsche-reading, Zen master he knew in the Marines. But Moriarty has no idea just how much entrepeneurial capitalism is frowned upon by corporate America--just who do you cross, running smack from the Golden Triangle? The CIA? The Mob? While Moriarty ponders that, with the aid of two alternately humorous and sadistic thugs, Nolte and Weld are running for their lives, down to Los Angeles and finally out into the desert to an abandoned hippy enclave where Nolte once lived. But the summer of love died long ago, infiltrated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In a World Where Flying Men Hunt Elephants......People Will Just Naturally Want to Get High | 3/15/1979 | See Source »

...daring but unsuccessful raid on the Son Tay P.O.W. camp in North Viet Nam in 1970, agreed to lead a band of 14 volunteer commandos in an assault on the prison. After deciding that the unit was too small for the job, claims Perot, he arranged for a mob to do the job. There was indeed a prison break, and the two Americans escaped with thousands of other prisoners. They made their way overland to Turkey with the commandos, and from there flew to the U.S. Said Chiapparoni when he arrived in Dallas last week: "I always wanted to work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: Now, Another Power Struggle | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

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