Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Passion to enter, smashed in a front window with her Umbrella. Much was made of the muddy boots that tramped over damask-covered sofas, of the unrelenting drumroll of breaking crockery and crystal, of bloody Noses, hysterical Women, ram pant gluttony. I have always resented the Contumelies ("rabble," "Mob") heaped on the 20,000 Neighbors who called on me in my new dwelling-place that brisk March day. Yet I freely allow that the shattered windows and ruined Carpets that greeted me when I dared return were enough to make this Old Genl flinch...
...shows. But no one really cares. As a producer told an editor when refusing permission for overtime retakes, "Aw, what the hell, it's only television." The main thing is that on some primitive level the show is working. Fans mob the girls when they go into the streets for location work. The mail runs to 18,000 pieces a week-even more after something as raunchy as the prison show. The fact is that, for the moment anyway, ABC has stumbled onto something big. Charlie's Angels might be called family-style porn, a mild erotic fantasy...
...Chile, when three of those ousted bishops arrived home they were assaulted at the Santiago airport by a rock-throwing mob. The attack had been instigated by several government officials who were identified and promptly excommunicated...
Meanwhile, sandwiched between a field hockey warmup on one side, and a cheering mob of freshman football spectators on the other, the Quincy House squad ground out an easy victory against Yale's Saybrook-Trumbull...
From there on in the victory of the right-thinking mob was clear. The capitalist-roader Yale squad quickly fumbled the ball into the even hands of Charles E. Shepard '76-4, who was waiting on the fence, and ran way too long and had to be cut downstairs in the shop...