Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gates of the Forbidden City. Rising from a massive deep-red pedestal, the red pillars and two yellow tile roofs spread forth in gigantic yet perfect proportions. In the morning, snow falls across the Imperial Palace grounds. It is into this setting that Richard Nixon and a mob of television and still cameramen walk, making small talk and gawking. "The snow has whitewashed the world," says Yeh Chien-ying, deputy chairman of the military affairs commission of the Chinese Communist Party as he guides the President...
When last seen, Bruce Davison was being devoured by vermin in Willard. He is back, with no visible scars, in The Jerusalem File. This is an adventure in which the only rats are a mob of blood thirsty Arabs who cruise about in a ramshackle black sedan gunning down their enemies...
...Hitler Is Alive." Underscoring Lynch's fears was an outbreak of anti-British violence in Eire last week. As the country observed a day of mourning on Wednesday for the 13 Derry dead, a mob of Dubliners estimated at as many as 30,000 stormed and burned the British embassy in Merrion Square. Police stood by helplessly as petrol bombs rained down on the 18th century Georgian building, which had been vacated the previous day for fear of attacks. The crowd shouted "Burn, baby, burn!" when the roof caved in, and a placard read ADOLF HITLER IS ALIVE...
That feeling was running strong in the Republic all week long. A bomb damaged Dublin's monument to the Duke of Wellington. Airport workers refused to service British airplanes, forcing flight cancellations. Toward the end of the week a mob of more than 1,000 badly damaged the British Rail ways office in Cork with fire bombs...
Fortune Dundy-or Fortunée when the mood strikes her-is a 30-year-old virgin when she checks into Dionysus West, a jerry-built, mob-owned "swingles" trap for the 25-to-40 set. She is the kind of hysterical small-town girl that William Inge used to write about. Her virginity has "burrowed in," and she gets more fey and deluded every year. A true believer in movie-magazine ads and a windy, unpublished correspondent to any number of letters columns, she comes to Dionysus Villa as to an old-fashioned spa, to alleviate the hope that...