Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tehran, right-wing Muslim fanatics attacked a rally of leftist Mujahidin with clubs and paving stones. Tear gas filled the air, and Revolutionary Guards opened fire on the brawling mob surging through the streets. The bloody fighting near the U.S. embassy left at least one dead and 300 injured...
When a howling white mob tried to prevent Charlayne Hunter from entering the hitherto segregated University of Georgia in 1961, a broad-shouldered black cleared a path for her by using his 6-ft. 4½-in. body as a battering ram. He was a young (25) law clerk named Vernon Eulion Jordan Jr. Since then Jordan has moderated his tactics, but he has kept on pushing just as forcefully for black rights and equal opportunity. At the same time, he has become, in the words of Mitchell Sviridoff, a vice president of the Ford Foundation, "one of the great...
They did agree to doctor it a bit. The new script avoids calling Jews Frevlerbrut (a sacrilegious brood) or verblendetes Volk (a deluded people). And when the mob shouts for Barabbas, a few Jews also cry for Jesus' release. Cruelty and vindictiveness are displayed by the loutish Roman soldiery as well as Jews...
Trying to report the riot, United Press International Reporter Mike Fowler was seized by blacks, beaten and robbed of his wallet. Jeffrey Kulp, ,22, a white passenger in a car being attacked by a mob, was shot in the back and left paralyzed from the waist down. As the car fled, it struck Shanreka Perry, 11, a black girl. Her leg had to be amputated...
Despite the mob's fury, the torching and destruction were remarkably selective. Although some black merchants saw their shops burned out, the crowd concentrated on white-run businesses. The rioters' main targets were white-owned thrift stores, pawnshops, liquor stores, auto parts dealers and chain groceries. Few banks or pharmacies existed in the area. Schools and churches escaped damage, and the homes occupied by blacks looked as untouched as the residences of affluent whites in Coral Gables and Miami Shores...