Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...line position, often narrowly avoiding collisions in an attempt to see the thoroughbreds of sailboat racing up close. The passenger ferries came out packed to the railings with ogling tourists pushing and shoving to get a view. The large craft listed to the side facing the action as the mob jeered a patrol boat engaged in battle with the portly ferry, trying to herd it back behind the lines...
Dodging raw eggs and ripe tomatoes, Senator Edward Kennedy dashed into an office building in Boston just before a mob of irate white parents smashed one of its plate-glass windows. The crowd had booed him off the speaker's platform at an antibusing rally outside city hall because of his past statements urging them to stop the fight against the court order that desegregated Boston schools last week. At another rally, whites cheered a speaker who nominated the Senator for "bus driver of the year-if he ever gets his driver's license back...
...favored Turkey in the early days of the crisis, tacitly approving Turkish intervention. In retaliation, American cars were burned and American tourists abused, their cameras sometimes being snatched away and smashed on the ground. Athens' Constitution Square was the scene of occasionally violent anti-American demonstrations, and a mob of 15,000 had to be forcefully prevented from storming the U.S. airbase on Crete. The murder of Ambassador Davies seemed to have a sobering effect, however, and Caramanlis deplored "this sad event," promising to suppress acts of violence and anarchism in Greece itself with "merciless severity." To show that...
...Endzones and Harries, or to become part of a joyous mob in Park St. Station or Harvard Square, or merely have something to do with your date. The strange relationship between Harvard and its athletics has spawned a multitude of choices
Each dorm will develop its own personality and reputation. Dorm rivalries usually start with traditional cries of "Holworthy sucks" and end with a couple of water balloon fights, mob scenes and a moderate form of chaos on some warm October night when there's nothing better...