Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thing-steal from the rich and give to the poor." But the explanation that leans on real and perceived deprivation goes only so far. It is by no means clear that most of the looters were the neediest. There was an element of glee, perhaps of revenge, of a mob gone wild. Says Bard: "The looting had a quality of madness. I cannot believe that they cleaned out a store of prayer shawls and Bibles." Adds Ernest Dichter, a noted behavioral psychologist: "It was just like Lord of the Flies. People resort to savage behavior when the brakes of civilization...
Dialogue from a grade-B Mob movie? No, it is the tape-recorded musing of Donald B. Yarbrough, 35, associate justice of the Texas Supreme Court. Added to Yarbrough's other troubles, which range from 17 civil suits to a forgery indictment to an 84-count disbarment petition, the recording may well herald an early end to one of the strangest Texan judicial careers since the heyday of Hanging Judge Roy Bean...
Smith stored his manuscript in the cornerstone of a house in Nauvoo, Ill. Three years later, in 1844, he was murdered by a mob. The house was torn down in 1882 and the manuscript scattered, but a few sections were recovered and placed in the church's Salt Lake City archives. Among them is one 20-page fragment of which twelve pages were written by a single, but unknown, hand...
...failed to mention one of the more glaring reasons the Mob can operate with impunity-and that is that there are too many corrupt officials on the take. They are willing to turn their heads away as long as enough money sticks to their fingers...
...visitors were presumably also concerned about the upsurge in murderous violence within the Mob. En route to New York, Fratianno stopped off to visit Mob friends in Cleveland. That same day, John Nardi, 61, who was feuding with Young Turks in that city, was torn apart by a bomb as he started his car. In addition, there have been the 20 or more Mob-connected murders by hit men armed with silencer-equipped, .22-cal. automatic pistols (TIME, April 18). FBI investigators now believe that there are separate killers deployed by hoodlums in Chicago and by the Genovese family...