Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...humiliations of everyday life for the 18 million blacks in white-ruled South Africa make a mockery of that boast. Some events make the very realities of repression stand out in particularly bold relief. One was Sharpeville: in 1960, police broke up a rioting mob of blacks in this Johannesburg suburb by firing pointblank into the crowd, killing 69 and wounding 186. Last week South Africa suffered a second Sharpeville. Its name was Soweto...
...first time, some of the men lose control, including the dapper Mr. Cool, now convulsed and flailing his limbs. The crescendo comes when Ron directs attention to our diaphragms. Deafening whoops of pain, and some of pleasure. "We became a goddam mob," one disillusioned estie says afterward...
...Tully case, which Sprague took for no fee "as a matter of principle," the hit man claims to have been shortchanged by New Jersey state prosecutors after turning state's evidence against members of the Newark-based Campisi mob. Tully, 36, says the prosecutors promised him at least "one day less" than the lowest Campisi sentence. Instead, he got 15 years while the other gangsters avoided trial and bargained for terms as low as three years...
Indian, to help them salvage the booty and thwart the Mob. But while they are feverishly scooping up drug ampules, they discover greater treasure: a chest of priceless jewelry once intended for the mistress of King Philip V of Spain...
CUNNINGHAM SKIMMED BY a mob which had collected in the freakish April heat and packed itself against the gates of the ballpark, pounding on the walls and demanding to be let in. The ticket-takers had not negotiated their contract in time for the scheduled opening and when the management begged them, they said nothing doing. No one was moving and the thousands of privileged fans who had waited two years to see the redecorated ballpark weren't getting to their seats. From high above, a thirteen year old boy looked down from a ramp. Obviously he had connections...