Word: mobbing
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...realized that though I was not the object of the mindless chanting of the disrupters. I suffered nonetheless from its violence. When the speakers' right to speak was crushed so was my right to hear them. I asked myself where I might find redress; I who have no organized mob to support me and no ready means to defend my rights with force. When unchecked power raises its fist to smash my liberties, must I despair...
Elsewhere in the U.S., the action at some of the 337 closed-circuit TV sites was a bit too realistic. In the Chicago Coliseum, a riot broke out when the TV transmission broke down. Across town at the International Amphitheater, police had to turn firehoses on an angry mob of 1,000 trying to storm their way into the sold-out house. In Pittsburgh, 5,500 hardy souls braved subfreezing temperatures and icy 30-m.p.h. winds to see the fight outdoors at the Three Rivers Stadium. The fight fever knew no boundaries. In Manila, classes were suspended so that schoolchildren...
Emerson masterminded the "beginning of the dissolution of society." With him, "society was not spurned; it was judged irrelevant." As the ultimate Protestant, Emerson liked to boast that "a great man should occupy the whole space between God and the mob...
...young idealists appear stunned by the realization that despite the sales enthusiasm, their products would not stand close scrutiny under a good light. When the radical left philosophy is lifted out of the illicit bomb factories and away from mob delirium, the blemishes and pimples stand...
...appraising a bout, one criterion for many fans and the fight mob alike is the million-dollar gate. In the long history of boxing, there have been only 15 such matches-all involving heavyweights...