Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tank drivers' bodies. At first cautiously, then freely, the rebels began to stand up; a chorus of cheers welled up from the thousands in nearby streets. Western-style, they fired their guns into the air and rushed toward the battered fortress. In the next hour or two, the mob of soldiers, joined by thousands of citizens, sacked that palace with a thoroughness rarely seen...
...mortgage their houses in order to attend an Inaugural is the possibility of arriving home with word that they met the President. Barring that, someone famous and powerful, with a household name, will do. For many of the Inaugural guests, however, the difficulties were considerable. Oversubscribed events resulted in mob scenes around carefully protected superstars like Henry Kissinger, with Date Nancy Maginnes. Autographing for an eager crowd at the J.F.K. Center Thursday night, Kissinger seemed caught up in the melee but looked around and asked owlishly, "Where is everybody...
...within the city sold bread at $2 a loaf and water and soft drinks at $2 a bottle (the water in Lake Managua is too polluted to drink). Children sat in the streets, putting their hands in mud puddles and then licking the moisture. Rioting broke out among a mob of hungry survivors when a supermarket owner threw open his doors...
...also figures significantly in the success of The Godfather--by far the year's most interesting and accomplished American film. You might wish that the filmmakers had taken a more objective viewpoint than Mario Puzo, and shown what really happens to the middlemen and junked-up patrons of the Mob's cathouses and clipjoints. But the detailing of inner Mafla workings is vivid and accurate, as is--more importantly-- the Corleone family chronicle. This comes less from plot incident than from the perfect characterizations of Brando's Godfather, and At Pacino, James Caan, and Robert Duvall as his natural...
President Nixon tells the Mt. Kisco, New York International War Crimes Tribunal that while he did order bombs dropped on North Vietnam, he "didn't know they were loaded." "I am a Quaker by religion," the President explains. Across the country. Americans mob bookstores to buy a gruesome book documenting loss of limbs in Southeast Asia entitled. A Farewell to Arms. The first number of True Romance Languages, an intradepartmental magazine, stirs up mid-summer passions at the Faculty Club. Doris Kearns fictionalizes her biography of Lady Bird Johnson The Early Years and retitles it Tell me that you Love...