Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cold, Catholicism has frequently been regarded as foreign and its adherents as mindless followers of an alien despot. When the Pope, following the example of the monarchs of Europe, sent over a block of marble to be included in the Washington Monument under construction in the 1840s, an angry mob threw the gift into the Potomac. Closer to home, an equally unpleasant mob burned to the ground the Ursuline Convent and made the life of the Catholic minority in Boston uncomfortable indeed...
...Sayre left college to join the Canadian army for World War I service in Siberia. After graduating from Oxford, he covered Gangster "Legs" Diamond and the underworld for the New York Herald Tribune. In 1933 he published Rackety Rax, an uproarious satire about football and the Mob, and followed it to Hollywood, where it became a film and he became a scriptwriter on such classics as Gunga Din and Annie Oakley...
...marked contrast to Septembers past, when busing began in cities like Louisville and Boston. But busing remains one of America's most tense and torturous topics. Even in Columbus, police added earplugs to their antiriot gear to help them keep calm in case they encountered a screaming mob of irate parents...
...judges in the criminal courts, and it has developed a criminal identification program to help judges decide when to grant bail. But the commission's chief asset is information, particularly about organized crime. In the late '60s, it published a Hood's Who, a directory of Mob leaders and their business fronts, complete with home addresses. Now it profiles a crime figure in each issue of its quarterly report, Searchlight...
Author Maas' novel is a comedy of terrors that is all the more absorbing because of the methods used by both sides: the law bending the law, the mob making a farce of it. The area's top don, whom Wainwright is out to get despite his non-involvement in the case, roves free as a boccie ball. King Kong, among others, is appropriately retired by his own associates. Amazingly, Richie Flynn comes out a little wealthier and healthier, though back to selling booze...