Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...still has loyal admirers in Europe, though, as was proved by the urgent mob waiting to see Vicky Cristina Barcelona, and by the warm applause when it ended. After the screening we ran into one of his champions: Michel Ciment, the doyen of French critics. "You still go to Woody Allen films?" asked Michel in mock or mocking surprise. He was just setting us up for a pronouncement: that whatever Allen's current reputation, years from now people will take a retrospective look at the 40 - some films he's made and proclaim him as part of a holy trinity...
...many ways, we've seen it before: caught on tape, a mob of police officers surrounding and savagely beating a seemingly subdued suspect. The officers are white. The man writhing on the ground is black. National civil rights activists then arrive seeking justice for the injured. But in many ways, the latest case - in Philadelphia on May 5 - is different...
...young Navy pilot. When his plane was shot down over Hanoi in 1967, McCain broke both his arms and his right leg at the knee. He was stabbed twice by a bayonet, had his shoulder smashed by a rifle butt and endured the angry kicks and punches of the mob that discovered him. Those injuries, along with the more calculated torture that followed during 5½ years of captivity, left him unable to raise either arm more than 80 degrees. Depending on the weather, his right knee aches, causing a visible limp...
...secularist founder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. In his separation of mosque and state, they finally found freedom from discrimination. But that eroded under subsequent governments, often violently. As recently as 1993, a group of 33 prominent Alevi poets, writers and musicians were burned to death by a fundamentalist Sunni mob in a hotel in eastern Turkey...
...time word had gotten around the neighborhood in Elkhart that someone famous was on their street, the crowd had grown to around 200. But it was a mob with Indiana manners; they formed a line on the sidewalk and waited patiently for him to greet each in turn. One trembling teen-ager handed Obama a cell phone and asked him to say hello to her friend Hillary, a big Obama fan. "Hi Hillary!" Obama said with a mischevous grin, telling the crowd: "And she supports...