Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...change of power came none too soon, for Yahya had found himself the principal target of a terrible national fury. In Peshawar, an angry mob burned him in effigy and set aflame a house they thought he owned. Outside President's House in Rawalpindi, a band of sobbing wives and sisters of captured Pakistani soldiers threw down their gold and silver bangles in a bitter symbolic gesture: Yahya had taken their men, so now he could have their jewelry...
...that he had always kept his files in "good shape" on the "jokers" who "infiltrate" and manipulate protest groups. Rizzo argued that tough surveillance tools are necessary in a democracy to protect well-meaning people who might otherwise be "led to slaughter like sheep-you know, just like any mob...
Front End and Grille. Oscar, Jackie and Mickey started out in what has almost become an apprentice program for aspiring auto thieves. They began in "piece work," slap-hammering late-model Buicks and Cadillacs, which were sold for $50 each to mob-controlled wholesalers in Brooklyn and Queens. The cars were then cut up by highly skilled body men, and their components sold by crooked parts-and-junk dealers who stood to make almost as much as the car was worth when whole. The front end and grille of a Cadillac can bring as much...
From 1938 to 1940, he did research for Swedish Sociologist Gunnar Myrdal's monumental study of U.S. race relations, An American Dilemma. The work took Bunche and Myrdal into the Deep South, where one night a mob of whites, angered by their questions about interracial sex, chased them across Alabama...
...inflicted by the self-righteous brutality of vigilantes. Repression and cruelty were an unavoidable part of the IWW's burden, a load that Joe Hill helped to bear. Widerberg avoids this facet of his story until the film's historical pretense forces the issue. Obliged to include such a mob action scene in the San Diego sequence, he skims over the ugliness and jolts the camera so that most of the clubbing doesn't show. Either from disinterest or squeamishness he is unwilling to deal with Joe's life as an organizer. When Joe sings his rally songs, his humor...