Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During his career, "Harrington has put some of the biggest mob partiarchs behind bars. He's been around, knows those players, and can handle them," Manning said...
...Africans openly of involvement until they are proved innocent." In Zimbabwe, thousands of youths stormed through downtown Harare, attacking whites on the streets, smashing windows and besieging South African, Malawian and U.S. offices. The worst damage was at the South African Airways ticket center, whose staff fled as the mob surged through a broken plate-glass window, smashed furniture and computer terminals, then set the building afire. Another group stoned the U.S. embassy and offices of the Malawi high commission. Malawi is the only black African state that has full diplomatic relations with Pretoria...
...mob of more than 100 Yardlings last night celebrated the New York Mets' World Series victory by storming through Harvard Yard and into the Square, proclaiming "we're number one," and singing "New York, New York," as Boston Red Sox fans mourned in their rooms...
...problem to "the crowd at a baseball game. You really want to know what is being said by a few people at once -- the chemistry of individual 'conversations' between molecules." His method provides a way to acquire that knowledge, he said, which helps in understanding "the psychology of the mob...
...Worlds" because he used to control extensive operations in both Italy and Brazil. Buscetta, who testified in New York's "pizza connection" trial about heroin smuggling between U.S. and Sicilian mobsters, provided new evidence about the operations of the Mafia's ruling Commission. A second pentito, the mid-level Mob executive Salvatore (Toto) Contorno, made detailed accusations against defendants based on his firsthand knowledge of the Mafia's internecine warfare over the drug market in the early 1980s, when Sicily was the heroin- refining capital of the world. At one point, Contorno turned to the cages where defendants are being...