Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dinner. It was a glittering affair complete with strolling musicians and a postprandial ballet performance that illustrated Nancy Reagan's formal taste in entertainment. The guest list was kept relatively small (94 people) in line with the First Lady's desire that state dinners should not be mob gatherings of strangers...
With those smug words, a small-time criminal with big Mob connections claimed that he pulled off a scheme to attempt to fix the scores of nine Boston College basketball games during the 1978-79 season. In a first-person account in last week's SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, Henry Hill says he bribed three Boston College players, including Co-Captains Ernie Cobb and Jim Sweeney, to shave points so that Hill and his friends in the Tommy Lucchese crime family could gamble successfully against the point spread...
...victims of an inhumane racist capitalist system--they will see looters and murderers who should be, in the view of this film, punished. When the neighborhood is in an uproar over random arrests, Murphy tells us that the community leaders will demand justice. But what we see is a mob of hundreds of rioters, screaming and throwing garbage. There are three Black cops in the film: one is one of the rookies knocked off in the first scene; the second is a jovial fellow with about three forgettable lines; the third shoves hero Murphy and calls him a "piece...
From the beginning, he was a symbol of the crisis, an anonymous, blindfolded victim being taunted by an enraged Iranian mob soon after militants seized the U.S. embassy. During the next 14½ months, his picture was published again and again as emblematic of the ordeal of all the American hostages. The blindfold was finally lifted last week, and he was identified by friends and relatives as William Earl Belk...
...Sunday morning demonstration quickly turned into an occupation. Someone with a boltcutter opened a padlocked gate, and the mob flooded into the 27-acre compound. The Americans inside barricaded themselves in the fortified brick chancellery building, and Marine guards there held the doors shut long enough for officials to destroy some secret embassy documents. Then they surrendered and, with the rest of the Americans, were blindfolded and bound. Their captors identified themselves as students whose allegiance was to Khomeini. Their demand was that the Shah be returned to Iran...