Word: hooligan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...majority of the university's 17,000 students and 2,500 faculty members undoubtedly shared the initial goals of the strike. But many were also appalled by the hooligan tactics of the demonstrators, who had held university officials captive, broken into offices and overturned furniture. Kirk had reason to fear that some 300 members of the Majority Coalition of students, which included a large proportion of athletes, might touch off intramural violence by trying to dislodge the demonstrators. A fight did break out between some 40 of the burly "jocks," who had set up a blockade to starve...
When Wladyslaw Gomulka's increasingly restrictive regime recently closed down a classic play called Dziady, the official reason was "hooligan excesses" -meaning that the audience clapped loudest at the anti-Russian lines. Last week Dziady's public grew louder still. Protesting fines slapped on Warsaw University students for demonstrating against the ban, some 3,000 students paraded through the downtown campus for two days shouting slogans. The government's answer: truckloads of helmeted militiamen, who used truncheons and tear gas to try to subdue the demonstrators. To no avail. At week's end, the students took...
...little, I play with you." Just so has she played with all the marshal's flunkies, as if she were the marshal's accomplice in debasing them. In the grey, foggy dawn, Steinbaum staggers out of the château "like a hooligan drunkenly stumbling homeward after a nocturnal orgy." The humanitarian has been...
...book by white Lawyer-Novelist Harry Bloom, lyrics by white Journalist Patricia Williams, score by black Jazz Composer Todd Matshikiza, direction by white Actor-Director Leon Gluckman, a veteran of London's Old Vic. When rehearsals began, they had to be conducted against odds: the curfew, threatening Johannesburg hooligan gangs, the rules of apartheid...