Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hancock's wealth paid for the enthusiasm of the waterfront bravos who rallied round the Rebel leaders. On one occasion, he provided ? 1,000 for the care and feeding of the mob. In 1766 Hancock won a seat in the state legislature as the protégé of Samuel Adams, who had been elected the previous year (Otis had been there since 1761). From then on, his political star kept rising...
...most cases there is no law to justify Patriot attacks on Loyalist sympathizers. Often it is simply a matter of mob violence. When a crowd of Patriots seized a Massachusetts customs official named John Malcohn, a witness recalls: "Being disarmed of sword, cane, hat and wig, he was genteelly tarred and feathered [until] he had more the appearance of the devil than any human being." Malcohn survived that mauling ?only to be trapped by another mob three months later. This time "he was stript stark naked, one of the severest cold nights this winter, his body covered all over...
...College in New York is still splitting its president's salary between two men-the president pro tempore, the Reverend Benjamin Moore, and the president de jure, the Reverend Myles Cooper. An ardent Loyalist, Cooper has been residing in England since he escaped from an angry mob of Patriots last year by climbing over the college fence and fleeing half-dressed to the Hudson's River bank, where he hid until taken aboard a British manofwar...
...stadium, they were blocked by a contingent of black police, led by white officers. Trying to disperse the students, the police used tear gas and then fired into the air. Only then−acting in self-defense, police officials insisted−did the troopers fire directly into the rampaging mob; one 13-year-old black boy was killed and several people were wounded...
...official spent the first night of the troubles in the home of a black family, who sheltered him and then smuggled him to safety next morning. A South African television cameraman-reporter team escaped injury when five blacks bundled them into a car and drove away from an angry mob...