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Word: mobbing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with Chiang's government as having "ceased to be valid," and would sever relations forthwith. Angrily condemning Japan's "perfidious actions," the Nationalist government severed relations with Tokyo and threw a cordon of troops around the Japanese embassy in Taipei in order to protect it from possible mob violence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ASIA: A Dialogue Resumed | 10/9/1972 | See Source »

...this thing that they have done in Munich, the Black September mob are truly the scum of the earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 2, 1972 | 10/2/1972 | See Source »

...Bell. "The place was besieged by young Arabs who were trying to enlist in Black September. They finally let me through, though I don't look much like a fedayeen type." Adds Bell: "I'm more the Winston Churchill type, as was testified to by the Persian mob that nearly lynched me during the Mossadegh days, when Mr. Churchill was distinctly unpopular in Iran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letter From the Publisher: LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER | 9/18/1972 | See Source »

...crew learned how to raise nonsense to dizzying heights: a filmed cabaret act of two brothers who play tape recorders concealed in their noses; a Hungarian tourist who reads to startled British shopkeepers such sentences as "My Hovercraft is full of eels" from a wildly mistranslated phrase book; a mob of old ladies, "Hell's Grannies," who terrorize London; an earnest competition for "Upper-Class Twit of the Year." These goonish concepts are executed with due gusto by Graham Chapman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Reruns | 9/18/1972 | See Source »

There is one group of city dwellers who do not stay at home-the children. They move through the town like the mob in Lord of the Flies, carrying hate on their young-old faces like a bold banner. They wait for soldiers on street corners, flinging crisp insults: "Limey pig...soldier baastids...Up yours," and then bricks and rocks. "You can't shoot a kid, can you?" says a soldier wearing a flak jacket with the inscription CS IS A GAS, a sick pun. "But I know a couple I'd like to ship," meaning deport them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN IRELAND: You Can't Shoot Kids | 9/11/1972 | See Source »

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