Word: broking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bridge into Cambridge, intent on taking MBTA subways and buses home. But the buses and subways could not handle the sudden influx at once, and as the largely teen-aged crowd backed up in Harvard Square, it turned into a surly mob. Beatings, purse-snatchings, and acts of vandalism broke out all over the Square, and before a hastily assembled force of policemen from Cambridge, Harvard, the MDC and the MBTA could restore order, seven persons had been hurt badly enough to require hospitalization...
...dramatize the point, a group of non-students including Savio established a Conscientous Objectors' table right next to the ROTC table. Fist fights broke out with fraternity hecklers, and 75 students responded by staging a sit-down. It was then that the Vice-Chancellor, Earl F. Cheit, dispatched nearly 100 sheriff's deputies and university police to arrest six non-students, among them Savio, for trespassing and creating a public disturbance. When students attempted to block the police bus carrying Savio and the five others away, three were arrested...
Disorder and rioting broke out in several Jordanian towns, sparked mostly by Jordan's angry Palestinian population, which comprises fully two-thirds of Jordan's 2,000,000 people. Rioters took to the streets, demanding arms for defense and attacking Hussein for refusing to counter aggression with aggression. In Hebron, they burned the car of Hussein's governor and forced the army to throw roadblocks around the town. At Nablus, they potshot at po lice from barricades and upstairs win dows. In the Arab sector of Jerusalem, thousands poured through the streets, ripping down pictures...
...second line contributed its goal four minutes later. Center Jack Garrity broke through two Bowdoin defensemen and converted his solo breakaway from six feet...
...intestinal epidemic of modest and unidentified source broke out at Harvard during the Thanksgiving holiday. Almost all of its victims have been residents of Houses served by Central Kitchen...