Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...streets and newsstands are safe between now and Wednesday, as an aging mob retires to lick its academic wounds, and a fresh junta prepares to take over...
...goons. No sweat, though: Harry has more artillery than the Cubans ever dreamed of stocking on Grenada. Interrupting a stickup in a diner, he aims a Smith & Wesson the size of Mr. T's forearm at an armed robber and grimaces, "Make my day." Then Harry insults a Mob chieftain with such savagery that the old man suffers a fatal heart attack. "Hey," he later shrugs to his apoplectic chief of detectives, "how'd I know he was gonna vapor-lock...
...doll that has become such an object of desire to so many people that 5,000 of them staged a near riot last week at Hills Department Store in Charleston, W. Va.? Manager Scott Belcher could provide no explanation. He could only describe a Christmas crowd becoming a Christmas mob: "They knocked over the display table. People were grabbing at each other, pushing and shoving. It got ugly...
...Mafia gunmen convicted of killing a witness who had cooperated with the special prosecutor. Last week Donovan was more explicitly linked to a criminal case. This time the Labor Secretary was subpoenaed to appear at a federal court in New York City as a defense witness for two Mob-connected union officials who dealt for years with Donovan's Schiavone Construction...
Prime Minister Maurice Bishop, 39, was languishing under army-imposed house arrest in the capital of St. George's when a mob of supporters burst past the guards and carried him outdoors. To shouts of "We get we leader back," Bishop joined a crowd of 10,000 that surged through the city streets protesting his overthrow...