Word: mobs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
That was the Reds' cue to take over. The next morning, they shoved aside the more cautious student leaders, whipped up a mob and broke into the shopping center, toting clubs and torches. Interior Minister Mushtaq Gurmani drove up to make a personal appeal to the rioters. They trapped him, set fire to his Cadillac, and forced him to flee in a police car. Steel-helmeted cops put aside their clubs, grabbed rifles, began shooting. By evening the Reds had seven martyrs...
...third morning, the Red-led mob swarmed out of Karachi's slums and back alleys; there was now hardly a student in sight, not a word about student grievances. Up & down the streets the mob surged, bearing a gory bundle, the lifeless, shell-torn body of a teen-age boy. "Close down," rioters yelled. "Observe hartal [the strike]." Frantically, shopkeepers shuttered up. The mob went systematically to work: attacking the headquarters of the police inspector general, breaking into liquor shops, smashing and guzzling, crashing into three munition stores to grab 300 guns. When troops and police charged, the rioters...
...that of Andrew Jackson, attended by hordes of enthusiastic supporters from the West. After the inauguration, in the words of a contemporary writer, "a motley concourse of people, riding, running helter-skelter," followed Jackson to the White House, where "it was understood that refreshments were to be served." The mob stormed the gates and doors, smashed china and glassware, trampled on delicate satin chairs with muddy boots...
...first time in the 71 years during which records have been kept, no lynchings were reported in 1952. Since 1882, there have been 4,725 deaths by mob violence in the U.S., but only eleven lynchings have occurred since...
...Sultan of Jogjakarta and Indonesia's Defense Minister. A 24-carat Sultan with an impeccable anti-Dutch background and the strongest man in the government, he decided to pull together at least one corner of the disorganized fabric: the army. The Indonesian army is an unwieldy, unreliable mob of 250,000 poorly armed, badly disciplined ex-guerrillas who grabbed guns to fight the Dutch, stayed on as "soldiers." Enthusiastically backed by his professional high command, the Sultan ordered unfit ex-guerrillas dismissed and the army slimmed into a disciplined, modernized, Western-style force...