Word: mobbing
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...Salaam's sprawling Kariakoo market, a screaming mob halted buses and dragged off African girls wearing tight dresses or miniskirts. The girls were beaten and some had their clothes ripped off. With fine impartiality, the mob also beat up youths wearing tight-fitting satiny pants. It was "cultural revolution," African style...
...their cultural independence, and sparked a lively debate. Football, declared one letter to an editor, is "a degrading product of colonialism and elite European boarding schools. African culture never produced such a clownish performance." On the other side, an upholder of law and order wrote that "the Wall Street mob of American society that watched a busty woman is more desirable than the unruly mob that besieged terrified girls in the Kariakoo market...
Showers of missiles, ranging from stones to bags of flour, fell on hardpressed police defending the embassy from the shoving, shouting mob. Inside, 11 U.S. Marines stood guard...
...rival gangs that reaches from Joe's Brooklyn turf to Tucson's tree-lined pleasances. Open hostilities in the battle to succeed Joe as head of the Bonanno family began with an ambush in January 1966 outside the home of Joe's uncle in Brooklyn, and mob-style executions have accounted for at least seven since then. During the past four months, Tucson has echoed to the blasts of eight bombings or shootings outside the homes of Mafia members and acquaintances...
...speech began, it ended. Wallace gave a last hardy wave, and vanished behind a fast-moving phalanx of Secret Service men, who hustled him through a sparse spot in the crowd. Boston policemen on horses and on foot, armed with varnished riot sticks three feet long, kept the mob away...