Word: mobbing
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...surprisingly adroit gunplay, they're dead and he's a hero, with a sudden fame that makes him uncomfortable. His unease escalates when some other toughs, led by one-eyed Fogerty (Ed Harris), drop in, declaring that Tom is one Joey Cusack, notorious gunslinger in a Philadelphia mob, and insisting that he go back East with them to clear up some unfinished business. Despite Tom's earnest protests, the local sheriff and even Edie wonder whether he really is the man they've respected and loved for 20 years...
...walked into the Science Center earlier this semester, I was confronted by a motley mob of students, all partaking in some sort of protest activity: signs waving, slogans being chanted, flyers being thrust in front of startled students. Removing my iPod’s ear buds, I scowled skeptically at the group for a few seconds and listened. Satisfied that this was nothing terribly new, I lowered my head and began to work my way through the crowd to class. As I was about to push my way through the revolving doors, a flyer-wielding youngster—probably...
...Those Chinese who protest against the whitewashing of World War II events in Japanese textbooks have often been presented as a mindless mob. Suppose, however, that a German textbook claimed that Nazi actions during the war were justified as a defense against Jews and communists. There would understandably be a huge uproar across Europe. Japan's wartime atrocities were crimes against humanity comparable to those in Europe, yet they have been below our moral radar. John Butler Kidderminster, England...
...fronts and are realizing they need to make efforts to bring about a better standard of living through economic cooperation and development. Arvind A. Choudhari Belfast Those Chinese who protest against the whitewashing of World War II events in Japanese textbooks have often been presented as a mindless mob. Suppose, however, that a German textbook claimed Nazi actions during the war were justified as a defense against Jews and communists. There would understandably be a huge uproar across Europe. Japan's wartime atrocities were crimes against humanity comparable to those in Europe, yet they have been below our moral radar...
...group of Pakistani commandos who were waiting last week for a killer. U.S. and Pakistani intelligence had received a tip that a suspected al-Qaeda operative would be traveling to Mardan disguised as a burqa-clad woman. Because any plainclothesmen seen grabbing a woman would attract a hostile mob, the commandos had donned female garb and accosted the suspect as his motorcycle crossed a graveyard. When the fugitive fled through a wheatfield, the commandos shed their burqas and flip-flops and gave chase, eventually cornering him in a house a mile away. After police tossed in tear gas, the suspect...