Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American writers. The most popular of these works dealing with sex between Blacks and whites share a similar protagonist, usually a physically powerful but intellectually deprived Black man, who comes to a tragic end as the Victim of Society, headed for the electric chair or castration by a lynch mob for the alleged rape of a precious white girl...
...country... Brown's not even a flake--he's organized crime. Reagan's a nice uninformed old man. Bush, Anderson--these guys are Trilateral Commission all the way." Andromidas lives in a world where the Skull and Bones club appointed William Sloane Coffin to handle the "left Jacobin mob"; where the government, trying to repeat Britain's "opium sedation" of the Chinese, paid Leary and Alpert and Kesey and all his pranksters to popularize LSD; where George Bush is nuts for considering nuclear war. It's an intense world. It feels good to stride back out into...
...deal was to have been sealed at a gathering in New Orleans this week -during Mardi Gras-of the Mafia's nationwide controlling commission. It would have been the most important meeting of the mob bosses since their celebrated conclave in Apalachin, N.Y., in 1957. The Chicago and New Orleans families were to have pinned down just how to cut the $2 million payoff for switching the Teamster insurance. Another topic was to have been how to recover Mafia dominance of the narcotics traffic. The FBI had hoped that much of the discussion would have been picked...
Said Chief Medical Examiner James Weston: "Virtually every one of the bodies had overkill, which is to say that there was more than mob hysteria. There was rage." Added Dr. Marc Orner, the psychologist at the prison: "None of us really understands what happened in there...
Despite the clash of cultures, many Iowans clearly enjoyed the presence of so many press celebrities. NBC's John Chancellor barely escaped from a mob of autograph seekers who cornered him at the Hotel Fort Des Moines. A secretary for CBS's Walter Cronkite fielded dozens of calls from people eager to talk with the popular anchorman. One fan claimed he was Cronkite's close friend; he had once written away for an autographed photo of the newsman. Kenneth Mueller, the mayor of Harlan (pop. 5,300), arranged to meet Adam Clymer, a national political reporter...