Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mullah and the mob have provided Jimmy Carter, vicar of Satan in their eyes, with a smokescreen for all the failures of his presidency: inflation, energy policy, the increasing desperation of the poor, tax reform, an urban housing short-age, declining productivity...
Cultures clash as a mob of journalists invades Iowa
Relations between the two nations could hardly have been worse. A mob of fanatical Muslims had attacked the U.S. embassy in Islamabad last November; by the time the siege was lifted, seven hours later, two Americans were dead. The U.S., meanwhile, had consistently obstructed Pakistani efforts to build a uranium-enrichment plant-which would give the country a nuclear weapons capability -had cut off economic and military aid, and had criticized the execution last April of former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. Such actions, complained the government-owned Pakistan Times, "amounted almost to interference in our internal affairs." Said...
Pretty smart. But these hijackers are not so smart. One of the companies that lost a couple of trucks is believed to be controlled by the Mob. If true, the guys had better hope the cops find them before the Mafia does...
...Chenier is also a good role. It's set in the French Revolution; Andrea Chenier is a poet who's condemned to death, and in the last act there's a trial by a revolutionary court, and everything's in chaos. So we extras really got into being a mob peasant jury--we'd blacken in teeth and wear wigs with hair sticking out, and put filth all over ourselves and make ourselves extra ugly. And then we'd sit in the juror's box on stage and chat and throw things and have a great time. I didn...