Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...again so moving a spectacle as that. But others, second only to it, come back. There is Bobby Jones winning the Open Championship at St. Andrews. He taps in his winning putt and the next moment there is no inch of green to be seen, nothing but a swirling mob, with Bobby in the middle, perched on adoring shoulders and his putter, 'Calamity Jane', held in precarious safety over his head...
...reason, investigators say, may have been a quarrel Bramlet was having with the Mob over the use-and presumably abuse-of a portion of the culinary local's $42 million pension fund. Some $16 million of the fund has already been loaned out to resorts and developments that are backed by Las Vegas gambling bosses...
Bigger Cut. The latest proposal for dipping into the culinary pot-reportedly cooked up by a Chicago Mafia triggerman named Tony Spilotro-called for founding a clinic-pharmacy where ailing union members would receive medical treatment and drugs. The Mob would skim off funds...
Meekly, we agree with H. L. Mencken's definition of our national character: we "constitute the most timorous, sniveling, poltroonish, ignominious mob of serfs and goos-steppers ever gathered under one flag in Christendom since the end of the Middle Ages, and...grow more timorous, more sniveling, more poltroonish, more ignominious every day." How easy...
Caesar and Cleopatra is afflicted by the mummy's curse. Despite two or three of the best scenes in the Shavian canon, the play itself may be unworkable: lines by Shaw but construction by Rube Goldberg. Offstage there are battles, mob scenes and the endless clumping of Roman legions. Onstage there are only words; even in this finger exercise for Pygmalion Shaw seemed to be heading toward what he later called playwriting as a "platonic exercise...