Word: riot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year ago to the day that four members of the Class of 1942 were arrested by Cambridge bluecoats for "disturbing the peace and breaking up a public demonstration." The surprised Yardlings, were later acquitted, but not before a statewide hue and cry had been raised over the supposed riot they caused...
...Nobody ever kept out of a riot by calling it an altercation...
...Swatow, the Japanese Consulate angrily demanded that British Consul H. D. Bryan "admit that British sailors [from the destroyer Tenedos] were involved in a riot" in which a Chinese was wounded, apologize, punish the sailors, guarantee that it would not happen again. The "riot" was a crowd of Chinese unenthusiastically shouting anti-British slogans and throwing stones at the British Consulate. Great Britain apologized...
...Negro Harlem has an annual tuberculosis death rate of 250 per 100,000 (against 69 for the city as a whole); the median rent in its crowded, stinky black-holes is $50 a month; in the city at large, $35. "The first race riot in New York was in 1712. The most recent was in 1935. The last is not yet." But Negroes like their Harlem. ("I'd rather be a lamppost on Lenox Avenue [Harlem's Main Street] than Governor of Georgia...
...Roche, in the Rocky Mountain Fuel Co., blood was spilled on another page of the grim history of Colorado's mine wars. To Vassar-educated Miss Roche, who had spent 19 years as a social worker, that was bitter: six diggers had been killed in a strike riot within sight of the gaunt tipple of Rocky Mountain Fuel's Columbine mine...