Word: riot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...police were quick. Riot calls brought them from all six North Ireland counties as fast as careening trucks could skid over the roads. As in Dublin in 1916, the rioters started sniping from the rooftops. Belfast police wasted no time, replied with revolvers & rifles. In a few hours the Dublin comparison became even stronger. In from Holywood barracks came a battalion of the Royal Innis-killing Fusiliers with machine guns unlimbered. The King's Royal Rifles were ordered to Belfast as fast as possible. Martial law was not declared officially, but authorities clamped on an 8 p. m. curfew...
Observers, scanning similar (though less grave) riot reports from Birmingham, Birkenhead. Croydon and other centres concluded that as winter comes the British jobless are getting mass-ugly, losing what trust they had in the MacDonald National Government, turning again to the British Labor Party which last week held its annual congress (see below...
...like a retired matador and was a good friend of President Gerardo Machado, stepped jauntily from his house next to the Havana Country Club and into his car to drive to the Senate. Down the block roared an open touring car containing seven hot-eyed young men with a riot gun. They passed with a rattle of shots. A dozen bullets struck Dr. Vazquez Bello, more than 60 punctured the car, the chauffeur was wounded in the head. Bleeding profusely, he was still able to drive to the hospital, where Speaker Vazquez Bello died within a few hours...
...Latin American countries, college students start political revolutions. In continental Europe they riot politically, go to jail. In England they debate intelligently at the Oxford Union, stand for Parliament, take government seriously. In the U. S., many a college student does not even bother to vote...
...Minister, but as Seth really hits his stride Basil's off hours become few & far between. Seth, remodeling his capital, tears down the Anglican Cathedral, renames the site "Place Marie Stopes." Climax of Azanian modernization is to be a Pageant of Birth Control. The pageant turns into a riot, the riot into a revolution. Seth is killed, the English settlement flees the country in airplanes. Prudence's plane has engine trouble, makes a forced landing. Few days later Basil, entertained by friendly cannibal chiefs, eats her unaware...