Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fraser administration has set the most stringent ecological standards governing safety, waste disposal and environmental protection. But when Fraser showed up at a dinner in Sydney, a mob of 3,000 protesters greeted him, some of them pelting him with bottles...
...with antiSemitism. The florid script that has been in use since 1860 reflects the peasant theater of that time, when plots were full of blood and thunder, and villains were wildly villainous. Thus it not only blames the Jews for Jesus' death but turns them into a snarling mob. Even after World War II, the church approved the continuation of the pageants, but since the Second Vatican Council's condemnation of antiSemitism, the caricatures at Oberammergau have become something of an official embarrassment...
...other hourly callers who found the lines busy. Fanned by frenzied tabloid coverage in Rupert Murdoch's New York Post, including a cliched open letter to Son of Sam and a sensational-and false-report that the Mafia had joined the hunt because the killings were hurting mob-controlled dating bars and discos,* an air of suspicion spread through the city...
...crutches last week because rival gangsters assaulted him in Brooklyn as a warning to keep his fingers put of the gambling casinos soon to open in Atlantic City. Then FBI agents served him with a subpoena that requires he appear this week before a Miami federal grand jury probing mob infiltration of businesses there...
...were convicted of rape in Saudi Arabia's Al-Hasa province and sentenced to death. One, a bachelor, was beheaded. The other three were married and guilty of adultery as well as rape. They were buried up to their waists in sand and stoned to death by a mob that used small rocks instead of boulders to prolong their agony. Sometimes the victims pay too. When a German girl was raped by two men a couple of months ago, the judge ordered her flogged "as an accomplice to immorality...