Word: mobbing
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Others jumped up to subdue him. Women screamed; children began to cry. Eight men eventually wrestled the 6-ft., 190-lb. Burton to the floor. "It is over," a man told him, yelling obscenities. "You are not getting up." But the mob may have got carried away. Dean Harvey, who was sitting in the third row with his wife and 11-month-old daughter, says a burly man jumped repeatedly onto Burton's chest. "You've got the guy subdued, what more do you want?" Harvey says he told the man, who jumped twice more before stopping. Harvey's account...
...very long time for traders and investors to sit with this significant a policy shift, and how it all shakes out in the labyrinthine land of puts, calls, options and futures is really anybody's guess. Gore and Clinton have put themselves at the mercy of a mob whose ways they can't possibly fathom, and if they're smart they won't gloat a bit, no matter where oil prices go. Just ask Alan - the boys on the Street are panicky and unpredictable parsers...
...wrote a column the other day saying I thought the Bush-is-a-moron business (can't pronounce big words, malaprops hilariously) was a little unfair. The sight of a lynch mob is always distressing, especially when they're looking to string up a dyslexic. Even if he does wear cowboy boots...
...infant colony would have scandalized the Marquis de Sade; down the years, that tradition has been maintained. The last convicts arrived in New South Wales in 1840, and many were absorbed into gangs, or pushes, of "larrikins"-hooligans. The Forty Thieves of the Rocks and the Iron House Mob of Woolloomooloo segued neatly last century into fearsome razor gangs; the North Shore, nowadays so sedate, was terrorized by the Gore Hill Tigers and the Blues Point Mob...
There's a scene in the movie "Analyze This" in which the mob boss's fat bodyguard, Jelly, describes himself, with endearing objectivity, as "a f------ moron." But when the psychiatrist (Billy Crystal) repeats the assessment, telling the goombah frankly that he really is "a f------ moron," Jelly objects...