Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard fan is also part of the throng that invaded the Boston subways returning from the Crimson's dramatic victory over Boston University in the Beanpot tourney at the Garden--the raucous mob that rocked the train with shouts of "We're Number One" and loud, though not tuned, versions of "Ten Thousand Men of Harvard...
...second-in-command, Nixon often served as Ike's emissary at home and abroad, tending to G.O.P. matters and visiting nearly threescore foreign countries; on one such trip, Nixon was in real danger when a Communist-led mob in Caracas besieged his car, smashed its windows and covered him with spittle. When Ike was felled by a heart attack...
Those who fear the rule of King Mob often complain of "the tyranny of the majority" and even romantically assert, as did one of Ibsen's characters in An Enemy of the People, that "the minority is always in the right." Lone voices crying in the wilderness often do speak good sense, and majorities can of course be wrong, or infuriatingly slow to come round to a view that is later seen to be right. But after examining all the arguments for the assumed tyranny of the majority, Ferdinand A. Hermens, professor emeritus of the University of Cologne, concluded...
...time put in a full five-day week of deliberation. Long criticized for its slow pace and three-day weeks, the committee suddenly came under opposing fire from the White House for its haste. The President's special counsel, Dean Burch, assailed the committee as "a partisan lynch mob" acting under orders from the Democratic "hierarchy" of the Congress. Chairman Rodino came under intense personal criticism after Los Angeles Times Reporter Jack Nelson indirectly quoted him as saying in an informal chat with three newsmen (Rodino thought it was off the record) that all 21 of the committee...
...stones, and hijacking is common. The shoulders of the main road between the mining zone and Bogota are dotted with crosses that mark the graves of those who lost their lives and their booty to pistol-packing esmeralderos. Last year, for example, a gang called La Pesada (the Heavy Mob) held up a caravan of smugglers working for El Ganso (the Goose), took their emeralds, and machine-gunned five of them to death...