Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...committee found that the CIA was thoroughly conned by the Mafia. The agency promised the Mob a fee of $150,000 for Castro's murder, and even passed along some lethal pills to the supposed killer outside the Boom Boom Room of Miami Beach's Fontainebleau Hotel. But the Mafia never did anything to try to kill Castro. Apparently the Mafia men involved were simply stringing the CIA along to gain its protection against FBI interference...
After a meeting with Costa Gomes, Pinheiro de Azevedo emerged visibly angered. Only the week before he−along with 150 members of the Constituent Assembly−had been imprisoned for 37 hours in Sao Bento Palace by a mob of 60,000 construction workers seeking a 30% pay rise. After the meeting with the President, he told reporters: "I am fed up with being held prisoner. It is time the President resolved this crisis...
Alarmed by the growing threat of mob rule, which radicals euphemistically called poder popular (people power), Pinheiro de Azevedo has warned: "People power becomes tyranny when it is not united under a body of law." In the wake of the construction workers' lock-in of the Premier, the 247-member Constituent Assembly debated whether to move to the more tranquil environs of Oporto in the north. In the end, they decided to stay in Lisbon to show they were not afraid, but they did pass a motion allowing them to meet anywhere in the country if conditions warrant. Disgruntled...
Like Gable, Carroll proclaimed that he was against forced busing, but the Governor did maintain that the court's decree had to be obeyed. That stand appeared to hurt Carroll when resentment against integration rose to such a pitch that mobs burned buses on Sept. 5. On election eve, police had to use tear gas to disperse another mob of 3,500 demonstrators who were throwing bricks and bottles and chanting "Get the buses!" As it turned out, the resulting backlash against the violence helped the Governor, who also closed fast with an aggressive and well-financed campaign. Carroll...
...didn't grow up in Cambridge, Clem is already a fixture in Cambridgeport, where he hopes to cut into incumbent Daniel J. Clinton's home-turf margin. And Clem is not lacking in support from the Harvard Square area, having tickled the collective fancy of the ritzy Brattle St. mob...