Word: mobbing
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...scary day, the skeleton of a Japanese soldier. After watching a sailor pinch a bar girl on the bottom, he tries out that sign of affection on his family's elderly Chinese maid, with disastrous results. When his father gets into a minor road accident, an angry mob gathers?until Martin, then 9, stuns everyone into silence with a burst of newly acquired Cantonese obscenities...
...intervening years, that hushed self-pity has metamorphosed into an aggressive self-loathing most frequently manifested in obnoxious ad hoc mob attacks on single unsuspecting Yankee fans. Red Sox fans don’t even need a reason to break out the “Yankees suck!” chant any more. A group of them recognize one another as Sox fans at a Dispatch concert? Yankees suck. The Celtics are blowing out the Cleveland Cavaliers at the FleetCenter? Yankees suck. The Patriots just won the Super Bowl and fans have started overturning cars and setting trash cans...
MILESTONES: Al-Qaeda suspect arrested; former Mob boss convicted; Pop Rocks inventor dies; Crick remembered by Watson...
CONVICTED. JOSEPH (Big Joey) MASSINO, 61, the once powerful Bonanno Mob boss; of racketeering, arson, extortion and money laundering; in New York City. The former 400-pounder--dubbed "the Last Don" for evading prison while the heads of New York's other four Mafia families were behind bars--was also found guilty of having a role in the slaying of Dominick (Sonny Black) Napolitano, who let FBI agent Joe Pistone (posing as jewel thief Donnie Brasco) infiltrate the family...
...bullets - and, one scary day, the skeleton of a Japanese soldier. Watching a sailor pinch a bar girl on the bottom, he tries out that sign of affection on his family's elderly Chinese maid, with disastrous results. When his father gets into a minor road accident, an angry mob gathers - until Martin, then 9, stuns everyone into silence with a burst of newly acquired Cantonese obscenities. Yet the innocent idyll has a villain: Booth's father, a stiff, cocktail-swilling prig who denigrates the locals and mocks the boy's affection for "going native." The elder Booth...