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Word: mobbing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...minutes after the last police car pulled away, the black students raced from the subway station back toward the school under a shower of bricks and rocks. The white mob, which had apparently moved from the school vicinity to the subway station to wait for the blacks descended upon them. On the one side of the blacks stood the closed school doors from which the handles had long since been removed to prevent trespassers from entering the school in between periods. To their other side loomed a mass of white fists, tear-streamed faces and rapidly-moving lips mouthing...

Author: By Fran Schumer, | Title: Prisoners of Class | 12/20/1973 | See Source »

...DEAD is a scurvy mob melo drama that nevertheless presents sever al new insights into the manners and morals of gangland. We note, for ex ample, that persons affiliated with the Mafia have a certain delicacy when referring to bathroom matters. "Can I use the powder room?" a sultry lady inquires of a beau. A bomber explains his eagerness to escape an impending explosion by gesturing toward the facilities, hopping up and down and muttering "Uhhmm . . . nature call." Further, it seems that the Mafia has taken matters of ecology straight to heart: corpses are deposited all neatly wrapped in plastic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Quick Cuts | 12/17/1973 | See Source »

These fears were exaggerated; nevertheless, Sam Adams led a meeting of the patriots that decided to enlist the aid of the South End Mob of Boston and dump tea from three British cargo ships into Boston Harbor. "Many persons," an exultant John Adams wrote at the time, "wish that as many dead carcasses were floating in the harbor as there are chests of tea." The effect of the action, conclude historians Morrison and Commager, was to commit the patriots once and for all to the use of violent means against the British oppressors...

Author: By Geoffrey D. Garin, | Title: Celebrating the Revolutionary Party | 12/15/1973 | See Source »

...Cradle of Liberty" name because of a special intellectual quality of its leaders but because of a special leaders were willing to resort to violence under conditions they thought to be oppressive. The American Revolution began in Boston because Samuel Adams and the South End Mob were the first to understand Tom Paine's admonition, "Moderation in principle is always a vice...

Author: By Geoffrey D. Garin, | Title: Celebrating the Revolutionary Party | 12/15/1973 | See Source »

...OCCASION of the 100th anniversary of the Tea Party in 1873, a group of Boston's finest citizens, including Harvard President Josiah Quincy, gathered in Faneuil Hall to commemorate the deeds of the South End Mob. The organizers wanted to find some appropriate way to mark the occasion, so they came up with the idea of having a tea party of their own. After a series of patriotic speeches, including one by Frederick Douglass about women's suffrage, women went up and down the aisles of the hall and served the celebrants little cups...

Author: By Geoffrey D. Garin, | Title: Celebrating the Revolutionary Party | 12/15/1973 | See Source »

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