Word: mobbings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After seven lean years of Dartmouth victories, tomorrow will be a fat day for the Crimson," promised Captain Franny Lee before a huge torch-lit mob in front of the Varsity Club...
...spite of these numerous disadvantages, the editors have come to feel a certain attachment to the depressing place. To this day each graduating 'Poon man takes home a bit of cobweb from the business office. But the most eloquent expression of these touching sentiments came last spring, after a mob had stained a glass window with a grapefruit. "I love this building!" sobbed the tearful President, as he placed a square of cardboard over the broken pane...
Like a man in a nightmare, who finds that he must live his most private life in the midst of a great crowd of friends and relatives, William Sebold lived constantly in the presence of a veritable mob of Government agents. When he met men spying for Germany, hidden dictaphones recorded the conversation, hidden motion-picture cameras recorded the scene. And all around him industrious operatives collected evidence, still managing to look like casual passers-by in the ordinary run of U.S. life...
Eugene Lyons has been poking at the snakes again. The Red Decade (subtitle: The Stalinist Penetration of America) is the liveliest and most complete account to date of the "grotesque and incredible revolution" whereby the U.S. Communist Party, once a mob of mugwump Marxists led by nonentities, entrenched itself in the leadership of the C.I.O. and in strategic spots in the Federal Government. Eugene Lyons tells how the Commies managed by grace of the depression, the widespread fear of fascism, the Spanish Civil War and the New Deal to capture key positions in U.S. publishing, radio, movies and the stage...
...great panic" began on July 14, 1789. It lasted 22 years. In Paris, the mob had captured the Bastille. But in the countryside, "at first there was a sort of general shudder of fear. The long-established royal authority . . . seemed shaken; and . . . it was the only form of authority [the peasants] could understand." Suddenly there was a rumor: "Here are the brigands! They're coming to burn our forests and cut our wheat! On guard and arms!" All over France the peasants armed themselves and started beating the countryside for brigands who were never found. In the Midi they...