Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Beyond writing checks, unpaid labor is at voluntarism's heart. "I think people are turned on to help," says Tom Aglio, director of the Orlando (Fla.) Catholic Service Center. "I think the troops will come through." Yet a mob of green troops may not be the answer. "We've already had an explosion of voluntarism," says Winifred Brown, executive director of the Mayor's Voluntary Action Center in New York City. "Institutions many times are not ready for them. Voluntarism needs to be planned for." Brown recommends employing a paid coordinator of volunteers. Officials point out that...
...after playing a listless first half, the Springfield offense came out smoking in the second half. With less than 30 seconds gone on the clock. Springfield forward Sue Monahan put the ball in the net as a mob of players surrounded the Crimson goal...
...Jones recalls a lunch one day with Speaker Tip O'Neill. After the session ended the doors were opened for the press, and a swarm of reporters, photographers and technicians engulfed the room. O'Neill looked at the miniature mob and sighed: "I'll never understand why people believe this budget business is so important." The Speaker surely knows...
...moment, the militant miners are lying low. Kerr-McGee has secured a temporary injunction against picketing at the Galatia site. So far 20 miners identified from photographs as participants in the August attack have been arrested on charges of criminal damage to property, mob action or aggravated battery. (All are free on bond.) Kerr-McGee President James G. Randolph, 51, a retired Air Force major general, flew to Galatia from corporate headquarters in Oklahoma City and ordered work resumed. The chain-link fence has been rebuilt. A score of bright yellow bulldozers, scrapers and earthmovers are growling back and forth...
...August, Weh Syen and four other P.R.C. members were arrested and tried by a secret military court. The main charge: plotting to kill Doe and other military leaders. Found guilty, the five men were led past a howling mob to the Barclay Training Center, Monrovia's main military barracks, to be shot and bludgeoned to death in their cells later that night. Besides consolidating Doe's grip on the P.R.C., says a Western diplomat, "the killings were a warning to the former civilians in the Cabinet." One who took the warning seriously was Minister of Planning Togba...