Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...baseball season is with us again. And according to George Vecsey, that means that "the mob" of fans who ruin America's pastime for real baseball aficionados are with us again...
Although street riots like the scene in Detroit following the Tiger's triumph in the World Series won't be with us again for months, the problem of the drunken mob exists nonetheless...
...commissioner's office should be applauded for encouraging clubs to dilute ballpark beer and to prohibit end-of-game beer sales, but baseball should pursue the best solution to the mob problem--sell no beer...
...streets. Terrified crowds of Vietnamese surrounded the U.S. embassy on Thong Nhut Street, begging their old protectors to get them out. Some tried to hand their babies over the wall into the embassy compound. Marines used tear gas and rifle butts to hold off what had become a mob of America's allies. Relays of helicopters began ferrying people out of the compound, evacuating the Americans and many of the Vietnamese who had worked for them...
...black turning on black, and at least 20 more people lost their lives. In several townships, crowds set the homes of black policemen ablaze in vengeance against those they took to be stooges of the white minority government. In Kwanobuhle, an impoverished black settlement of about 50,000, a mob descended upon the home of a black town councilor, hacked the man, his two sons and two employees to death, torched the house, then dragged the charred corpses into the open, where youngsters chanted around them. "Enough!" pleaded Johannesburg's Rand Daily Mail. "This country is tearing itself apart...