Word: mobs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tall broad fellow faced the unruly audience. His blazing black eyes glared down the noise. Before he had said a word, the bedlam was ended. Startled by the quiet, the mob gazed open-mouthed at the platform. Then, when complete silence acknowledged his absolute mastery, he spoke...
...took a full minute for the audience to drag itself back to reality. And then a deafening tumult rattled the convention hall. The shrieking mob raised their now leader upon their shoulders. They stamped round the room to the rhythm of thumping chairs, waving flags, and a steady chant of "Bryan, Bryan, William Jennings Bryan, BRYAN, BRYAN, WILLIAM JENNINGS...
Meanwhile the mob had congealed in Stockton's four corners, yelling at the Negro women, asking them "How would you like to have this [rope] around your neck?" Terrified Lillian Blake promised to lead them to her man's hiding place. Someone pointed out that the two women, both barefoot, could walk faster if they were shod. A committee crowded into a store to buy shoes...
...search for Collick dragged on and a snowstorm wetted down mob spirit, tension in Worcester County relaxed...
...Child Study Association of America feels that his occasional rocket & space ship jaunts are a bit too improbable. By radio's own war rules, he must remain neutral, may mix in no international intrigues, rub out no Hitlers. So last week Superman cleaned up a local mob bent on wrecking the Silver Clipper, a streamliner train; caught them after a quick repair job near Denver, heaving 20 tons of rock off a trestle and replacing missing rails in a jiffy...