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...fact that a riot can be dangerous and that the rioters may have to take the consequences of their participation. If we have permission to hold a rally in the Square, that is fine; but when some of us start disconnecting trolley wires, pounding on police cars, attempting to overturn cars, and blocking traffic, we must expect the Cambridge police to attempt to disperse us before more damage is done. But how can they disperse a riot? To tell everyone to go home, or to reason with a crowd of college boys out to raise hell is futile. Possibly...
...Most Regrettable." Then they twisted through the street traffic in search of foreigners' cars-particularly the olive-drab sedans of U.S. Army units-to punch out their windows, terrify their passengers and overturn or burn a dozen empty cars. Two U.S. sailors caught up in the frenzy were dumped into the Imperial moat while a dazed Japanese stood near by muttering, "Most regrettable; most regrettable...
...members out of 136. He held them spellbound, while the galleries cheered, and in the end he got a 90-0 vote of confidence. Afterwards, Opposition Leader Jamal Imami, who talked against Mossadegh but abstained from voting against him, was mobbed outside. The crowd tried to beat him up, overturn his car; police rescued him. As Mossadegh himself emerged, an old merchant named Haji Mohammed Ali Aymaktchi lay down near his car, announced that he was going to slit his own throat as a human sacrifice to the great Mossadegh. Haji was led away, protesting at the lack of patriotic...
...entry. Every year some one of the seven entries in the three halls is notorious, as far as the dean's office is concerned. The grades of men in the entry are probably no lower than average, but students have a good time on football weekends and occasionally overturn a fire-extinguisher or engage in pinpoint bombing out of the window...
...Administration hoped that European recovery could be accomplished for less than $17 billion over a four-year period. The last request brought the total up to about $14½ billion-$2½ billion less than the original estimate, with success in sight. The President thought it a pity to overturn the whole applecart in the interests of misplaced economy. It was not economy and it would never be economy if the European recovery program was ruined just when the whole program was on the verge of success...