Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like the cold champagne in his shirt. Carlton Fisk was taping a Skoal commercial as Campbell popped the booze, and Ken Harrelson was modelling his most feathery and ridiculous hat for worldwide color television, and Howard Cosell stepped up to the star pitcher, pushing himself importantly through the mob, "Excuse me, let me thru, PLEASE, excuse...
...issue them a permit for a rally on July 9 in Marquette Park, near their headquarters. Said half-Jewish Collin (his Jewish father spent several months in Dachau): "My overall goal was always Marquette Park, where I can speak to my own white people rather than a mob of howling creatures in the streets of Skokie." Collin may find no peace on his home ground either: Black and Jewish leaders have promised to stage counterdemonstrations in Marquette Park on the same...
...reverberated with sound. Rhythmic horn honking blared from miles of jammed-up and flatulating cars and trucks, inside of and on top of which roosted thousands of happy Argentines, waving their white-and-blue flags and shouting. From apartment houses on the side streets others surged to join the mob; hands reached down from trucks to pull them aboard. The primal baying rose in volume: "Ar-gen-ti-na!" The noise stopped some time on the decent side...
...cold on the ground, waiting for the next train to take them east, to the rear area and food. Babies cried; but no one paid any attention, even if a baby was crying in the arms of a lifeless woman lying on the ground. Soldiers patrolled the mob, else they would have stampeded for the food or to board the trains that rolled at night...
...stalled. But when Provenzano went to Lewisburg Penitentiary in 1966 for shaking down a trucking firm executive, he became embroiled in a vendetta with a fellow inmate, former Teamster President Jimmy Hoffa, who had enraged Tony Pro by denying him a union pension. Both were eventually set free, and mob leaders summoned Hoffa to a peacemaking conference with Provenzano in a Detroit parking lot on July 30, 1975. Hoffa has not been seen since...