Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...well be, but the evidence is not entirely conclusive. There are indications, besides, that federal authorities were making a concerted effort to get Galante's name into print. The reason: they suspect that Galante is trying to increase the Mob's already heavy involvement in narcotics. The Federal Drug Enforcement Administration seemed particularly interested in publicizing Galante's activities. Writes TIME Correspondent John Tompkins: "A cold call a few weeks ago to DEA intelligence in New York resulted in a great deal of talk on a subject that the agency is usually rather quiet about...
...swimmer's time was abnormally slow, dejection and a determination to do better would show visibly on her face, while a new personal-best time might prompt an athlete to swim extra laps with seemingly endless energy. A euphoric basketball squad would rush onto the hardwood and mob each other with embraces when victorious, but when defeated the team would walk somberly to their locker room, grab a Coke and a pretzel, and hurry off to the solitude of a hot shower...
...screamed. Black snakes crawled towards her with mouths wrapped in microphones. Her every breath was sucked down by the surging mob. She communicated in gibberish and lights flashed their response. Everything oozing as Cleopatra's heat wave burned inside...
...wants to bury her dead brother becomes a symbol for all those who resist repressive regimes. Creon appears not just as a stubborn ruler but as the biggest, most demanding dictator of them all. Even the Greek chorus has a place in Sanchez' stark setting as the journalists and mob who report and intensify the action...
They played their roles perfectly: dockland toughs, racketeers, underworld fixers. So completely did they work their way into the confidence of the Mafia-backed labor groups in the harbors that they ended up as bagmen, carrying payoff money back to the mob. Last week there was no mention of the actors when 400 subpoenas were served for two federal grand jury investigations of an extortion ring that has preyed on at least a dozen shipping companies in New York City and other Atlantic and Gulf ports. TIME has learned that the trusted men who worked so closely with the Mafia...