Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first husband's death would simply let something fall on his head. Mickey, her current spouse, cannot disagree; he feels unworthy of Jeanie, probably with cause. He drives a refrigerated truck and sells stolen meat at the behest of his boss, a remote functionary of the Philadelphia Mob. Mickey finds himself obliged to soothe his wife's pain in two ways: by coming up with the $6,000 or so it will take for a mahogany coffin and a dignified funeral and by begging his underworld connections to find out just how Leon happened...
Said a person who entered Briggs Cage, just immediately after the game's end, as he saw the euphoric mob: "Ah, Harvard...
...next 63 minutes, that center of serenity became an axis of insanity. Trash, newspapers, tennis balls, and sleeves blanketed the ice, drawing two Big Red delay of game penalties, the mob thundered louder than a heavy metal band, and Cornell blitzed Harvard 6-1 to earn a 6-5 shocker...
...Hojatoleslam Hossein Musavi Tabrizi, ordered the abolition of all Baha'i organizations. The community obediently shut down its 400 local meetinghouses and dissolved the national and local governing councils. In the months since Tabrizi's declaration, a farmer was lynched, a young woman was slain by a mob just after she gave birth, and 190 more Baha'is were arrested. Says Mehri Mavaddat, an Iranian refugee lawyer now living in Toronto whose husband was executed in 1981: "The killings are very casual. That's what makes them so horrible. Some are arrested and killed. Some...
February 12, 1980. An unforgettable photograph: about a second earlier, Wayne Turner has given the Northeastern hockey team its first Beanpot in 28 tries. The film captures Turner behind the net, up on his toes, arms raised, waiting for his teammates to mob him. The losing Boston College goalie, Bob O'Connor, having flopped to the ice, looks behind him, where the puck and teammate Paul Hammer are both in the net. And O'Neil, a freshman winger, skating past the goal a little too late, is about to smash his stick in frustration across the goalpost. The picture...