Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...relentless assault on his empire, Medellin cartel boss Pablo Escobar Gaviria seems to have forsaken bombs and gun battles in the streets, which have killed more than 1,000 people in the past 15 months, and opted instead for high-profile kidnappings and negotiations. Since August, Escobar's mob has been holding seven journalists -- including Hoy X Hoy magazine editor Diana Turbay, the daughter of a former President -- and threatening to kill them unless a peace deal can be worked out. In the past year authorities have gunned down several Escobar associates, and the drug lord has twice narrowly escaped...
After Li's goal gave Harvard the lead, Brown didn't die. In the final 55 seconds the Bruins had two corner kicks and two penalty shots. Twice, the ball deflected off the post when it came out of a mob scuffing in front of the Harvard...
...Jewish soldiers and settlers, while hard-line Israelis have demanded harsher countermeasures against Palestinians. When a West Bank Arab took revenge by stabbing three Israelis to death in a quiet Jerusalem neighborhood last week, a senior Palestine Liberation Organization official heralded the new "war of daggers." An angry Israeli mob responded with assaults on Palestinians and even Israeli leftists...
...crowd began to press forward again, and I was shoved aside. In the commotion, I dropped the pen that I had been clutching in my right hand. I debated for an instant whether to bend down and pick it up, fearing that I would be crushed by the mob...
...Iraqi leader has tried repeatedly to drag Israel onto center stage in order to convince his fellow Arabs that the enemy is not Iraq but the Zionists and their American backers. Israeli security forces played right into his hands last week when they fired into an angry Palestinian mob on Jerusalem's Temple Mount, killing 19 Palestinians and wounding 140. The deaths, said Boutros Boutros Ghali, Egypt's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, were "Israel's great gift to Saddam Hussein...