Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mike (Michael Angelis) will need every resource of irony this New Year's Eve. It is his first night as manager of the Charleston Club, which is a laundry for money amassed by a very violent mob. But Mike has other worries: "I've got a group who can't play music, one bad comedian plus boyfriend, a nervous breakdown calling himself a magician, two coachloads of 70-year-old ( religious maniacs looking for a fight, and a fancy-dress contest that nobody knew about." The fanatics are warring Irish Catholics and Protestants, a half-century's resentment festering between...
...same day, another Soweto councilor, Siegfried Manthata, who heads a group dedicated to "crime control," fled with his family through his backyard and took refuge with neighbors after a mob stormed his house. The attackers hurled rocks through the windows, cut the phone line, doused the dwelling with gasoline and set it on fire...
...throngs of monied and munificent alumni who streamed through The Stadium gates toting their pricey, though tax-deductible ducats were confronted with a mob scene when they went to claim their comforters...
...Attribute the incident to Yale, MIT, the Lampoon, mob fever, mass hallucination, Ecstasy, Bud Lite, or flying saucers...
Resistance to the appointment, President Reagan assured a political rally in Miami last week, had come from a "little lynch mob." Some "little lynch mob": half the U.S. Senate, backed by a phalanx of other politicians and legal scholars, all opposing the President's nomination of Archconservative Daniel Manion to a federal judgeship. The final vote of the Senators was 49 to 49. The roll call came on the question of whether to reconsider an earlier vote, one that would have been 47 to 47 but tipped 48 to 46 for confirmation only because the rules forced Senate Democratic Leader...