Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hoffa fourth-hand-by talking to a courier who was talking to gangsters who were talking to a man who had knowledge of the whereabouts of Hoffa's burial. "It's pure baloney," said one federal investigator. "That stuff about the Mafia is bunk. Look, if the Mob wanted Hoffa's body found, they would have it found...
...film opens with a frenetic scene from The Roaring Twenties (1939), depicting a nattily dressed James Cagney as the leader of a mob of despairing stockbrokers futilely trying to save their investments...
...Motley Mob. In the wake of the attempted coup, a motley mob of Quito citizens ransacked the palace, carrying off rugs, lamps and other portable goodies. Otherwise, there was little popular support for the coup even though Rodriguez's regime has lately been in considerable economic trouble. In the first half of 1974, Ecuador exported $444 million worth of goods, primarily oil from its jungle wells, coffee and bananas. But then hypernationalistic government ministers raised the price of oil 54&#cent; per bbl. above OPEC's price. In protest, the oil companies severely limited production. Although revenues plummeted...
...novelist, and the great length of his work (2,000 pages) is not a matter of kilometers of canvas and barrels of paint. The final important scene of this last book is typical and illustrates the point. It is 1947, and the British are leaving India. Moslem and Hindu mobs, quarreling over the separation of the two sections of Pakistan from India, are butchering one another. A train from an old British hill station in the north is stopped by angry Hindus as it crosses the plains. Shouting Indian attackers kill shrieking Indian passengers by the hundreds. A young upper...
...characteristic of Scott that he stages this violent scene without showing the great sweep of the plains and with no view of the exterior of the train, the mob, the blood, the bodies or the long knives. Instead, he shows the interior of the dark and shuttered first-class compartment, where the English huddle with their baggage, not understanding why the train has stopped or the reason for the tiresome shouting and banging outside. When the young Moslem leaves the compartment to go to his death, most of the British have no clear idea of what this dusky intruder...