Word: mobbing
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...likes of this in my life," said Pontes Neto, a Red Cross official. "The children all have the same sickness, worms and chronic hunger." Shoeless looters roaming city streets have panicked retailers. All last week, heavy looting took place in Rio de Janeiro suburbs. In one wild afternoon, a mob of 400 sacked four grocery stores in the area, ripping down steel gratings and smashing windows. Says Security Guard Anzio Gomes Monteiro: "They seemed crazed, wanting to break everything, and said they were hungry and thirsty...
...unspeakable crimes are being yanked out of the shadows What might be called public violence is as American as assassinations, mob wars and mass murders, the stuff of screaming headlines and periodic national soul searching. What might be called private violence, what people who know each other, even profess to love each other, do to each other, is a nightmarish realm only beginning to be forthrightly explored. Its particular horror stems from its viola tions of the trust upon which all intimate human relations depend: it is cruelty exercised on those nearest, most vulnerable, least able or inclined to defend...
...farewell party in Jerusalem for high school graduates entering military service, a mob of ultra-Orthodox Jews, armed with clubs and metal bars, not only disrupted the festivities but also partially destroyed the community center where they were being held. Another group of fanatics ransacked an Israeli census office, claiming that counting people violated divine law. A yeshiva student walking home one evening was seriously wounded by knife-wielding youths; they were apparently retaliating against the actions of militant religious groups. At a performance of Handel's Messiah by the Utah Oratorio Society, young firebrands repeatedly interrupted the concert...
...could never join this crowd of pedestrians; anyone who has ever tried to move across a major artery, or even a busy sidewalk, in an alien capital knows how hard it is to catch the rhythm. Yet a series of three couples in pale unitards does invade the mob, finally clearing a space for their own brief dance and slightly skewing the renewed movement of the throng. Clearly this urban ritual could go on forever, but abruptly the bright lights are quenched...
...significant information was held back not only by the FBI but also by Presidential Counsel Fred Fielding. He produced an FBI memo declaring the investigation of Donovan "favorable and complete" but, according to Hatch, failed to mention a later FBI document describing alleged links between Donovan, Schiavone and the Mob...