Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...presence kept urging him to wriggle off the hook. The next stop would be his last chance to walk across the platform and jump the first train home. "Save yourself," the voice said, reminding him yet again that the Wednesday crowd at the Apollo was the meanest, most capricious mob since the days of Nero's circus and the Christian martyrs. Arthur refused to listen, finding within his 22-year-old heart a last, untapped reservoir of ambition to carry him out into the whirl of 125th Street...
...wear debut, and expectations were high. Lacroix had suggested, while the clothes were still being made, that the giddy shapes and botanical palate of his couture work were going to be a bit muted. But when the lights went up on the first passage, there was a mini-mob of models swarming together at the back of the runway wearing splendiferous coats and short dresses and hats all colored like condiments: mustard yellow, catsup red, hot dog-relish green and purple that looked as if it had come from an eggplant that had suffered a fatal injection of food...
...mob teased Kevin Miller--MSU's returned Olympian--asking him how difficult his course load was this semester...
Baldwin charged that the hearing was not conducted fairly. He claimed the hearing took place in an atmosphere of "lynch-mob hysteria." He also said the panel's non-voting chairman, Dean of the College Edward Shanahan could not be impartial because Shanahan's direct superior, Dartmouth President James O. Freedman, last week issued a statement condemning the incident...
...Later in the week Blair went flying around the rink again to win the bronze medal in a personal best time of 1:18.31 for the 1,000 meters. Only in Saturday's 1,500 meters did she fail to win a medal. To her fast-growing mob of fans, the freckle-faced American had earned her sobriquet, Bonnie the Blur...