Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...BIGGEST ROUNDUP SINCE 1984 AND SIGnaled an important new strategy after decades of fruitless efforts to outfight the Mafia conventionally. Using evidence supplied by the crime syndicate's own members, Italian police arrested 90 suspected members of the Sicilian Mob. Three members of Italy's Parliament and several small-town mayors were among those nabbed...
...with eggs. That denouement nearly obscured the meaning of a day when 300,000 people had peacefully marched through Berlin to show opposition to the wave of racism and right-wing violence that has brought back ugly memories of an earlier Germany. Ever since last August, when a mob in Rostock besieged and burned a house for asylum seekers to the applause of 2,000 bystanders, Germans have watched in growing dismay as a xenophobic fever spread across the land. Right-wing extremists, neo-Nazis and ordinary youths have committed 1,760 attacks, mainly against foreigners, this year. They have...
...considered ready to commit violent acts. No sign has been more frightening, though, than the crowds that have cheered on the rioting hooligans. Says sociologist Wolf Lepenies: "I'm not at all surprised that 100 or 200 would attack an asylum house. I'm more worried about the passive mob...
...rushes to Sammy Davis Jr.'s bedside after his car accident and cavorts with the Rat Pack in a steam room at the Sands Hotel. The scenes between Sinatra and the Kennedy family are the phoniest of all, but they do open up the touchy subject of Sinatra's mob links. During the 1960 presidential campaign, Joe Kennedy asks Sinatra for help with "our friends in Chicago who control the unions." Sinatra obliges by cutting a deal with Sam Giancana (Rod Steiger) on the golf course...
Jones feels a responsibility as a prominent Black artist to take a stand against racial discrimination. Jones predicts that her 1944 painting "Mob Victim" will one day be famous. This painting depicts the lynching of a Black man in the South; she painted it in response to a series of lynchings in the 1940s...