Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...long before the shock passed, and a mob stormed the embassy, crashing through the twisted bars of a metal gate. Men reappeared with framed photographs of the deceased Jordanian King Hussein Abdullah. The crowd bellowed as the pictures were held aloft and cheered as they were smashed upon the embassy walls. Glass shattered and the pictures were stomped by many sandals. Next came Jordanian tourist posters and images of King Abdullah's son, King Abdullah bin Hussein, Jordan's reigning monarch. They too were smashed. A Jordanian staffer in the bowels of the embassy fired shots as the second wave...
...their instructions dictated, the mob makers filed out of the Coop as briskly as possible, heading into countless different directions. Within minutes, the greeting card section was as it had been before...
...recent flash mob craze, he said, reflects trends that govern his theory...
...communication technology to effect social movement—whether it be a spontaneous mob or a change in the outcome of an election—is consistent with the role technological innovation has always held in society, he said...
...most of yesterday’s mob makers, the event was nothing more than a simple diversion—or, for Undergraduate Council President Rohit Chopra ’04, an errand...