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Word: mobbing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seen not as the instinctive fascist some once thought him but as an apolitical, job-oriented man whose impatience with the niceties of the law is motivated by frustration over the slenderness of his resources and the shakiness of his backing. That is not the sound of a protofascist mob chortling encouragement at the screen when Harry lets fly, but the voice of perfectly nice people happy to see Harry do what they would all like to do?shake the System loose from its routines, pieties and general lack of responsiveness to the common needs of both keypunch operators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Less Harried Harry | 1/10/1977 | See Source »

...believe that New York Mafia Leader Carmine ("Lillo") Galente had bankrolled the DC-6 flight for $500,000 (based on roughly $20 a pound−the Bogota rate−plus $180,000 for the plane and other transportation costs). Galente has long wanted to re-establish the New York mob in the narcotics trade. Since the death of Carlo Gambino last fall, he has been struggling with another mobster, Aniello Dellacroce, for control of the New York underworld (TIME, Nov. 1). The plane's loss can hardly help Galente's leadership bid. Meanwhile, the feds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Pity Those Who Take Pot Luck | 12/27/1976 | See Source »

Said Lot Unto the Mob...

Author: By Deborah Gelin, | Title: Quad Sophomores Participate In Lottery Process for Moving | 12/17/1976 | See Source »

...violent movement. In the first days of January, 1969, the world looked on in horror as a four day-long civil rights march from Belfast to Derry met a massive Protestant attack that left many of the marchers wounded. As the marchers crossed Burntollet Bridge outside Derry, the Protestant mob attacked with everything from brass knuckles to spiked clubs, throwing injured marchers into the river below while police looked on. On August 12, the Apprentice Boys, a Unionist group which yearly commemorates the 17th century Protestant victory in Ulster, marched outside the walls of the Catholic Bogside ghetto, shouting taunts...

Author: By Jonathan D. Ratner, | Title: Making a Just Peace in Ulster | 12/10/1976 | See Source »

...would be wrong to read these editorials as evidence that The Crimson is truly committed to the high ideals of open elections. Instead, by calling for Federal suppression of advertising they oppose on purely political grounds, the editors are merely joining the mob of many who would like to use the coercive power of government unconstitutionally to have their own way in politics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Political Spending | 12/4/1976 | See Source »

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