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Word: mobbing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Usage:

...irony. Sicily's best-known export has, of course, become as American as frozen pizza. As Maas has shown in The Valachi Papers and Serpico, Cosa Nostra reaches far below the imperial realms of The Godfather into virtually every working-class neighborhood where cash is short and the Mob's loan sharks cruise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Out Like Flynn | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

...bars, pool halls and prostitute haunts near the base's gates. Complaining that they had been continually cheated by merchants on the strip, the sailors went on a window-smashing, rock-throwing rampage that ended only when the Shore Patrol and North Chicago police officers charged into the mob, swinging their billy clubs. Afterward, 58 trainees were court-martialed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Shaping Up | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

Little Joe stopped still on the bottom step and looked up at these spectres, his ebullience and gaiety sucked back into tense reproach. The wolves positioned themselves at the top and bottom of the Currier House steps, huddling into their packs; a couple and a mob...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Of Wolves and Men | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

...Halloween party with his girlfriend--a hooker as well. They bounded down the stairs with all their playground energy and they encountered the infamous and repulsive Harvard apparition of drunken preppie-jocks. There they were, Little Joe and Rhonda, their slap-happy presence blazing through a clumsy mob of drunken, tuxedoed pretension...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Of Wolves and Men | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

Little Joe stood perched at the top of the steps and kept his eye open for a mob of black ghouls to come prowling out of the darkness with whips and chains. He waited half an hour. An hour. An hour and a half. And then he kicked at the asphalt as he had been doing all his life and retreated to his room...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Of Wolves and Men | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

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