Word: riot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...husband at his arrest, submitted quietly, smiled serenely at the officers. At Cawnpore, scene of the Indian Mutiny Massacre of 1857, cavalry were called out. At Karachi police charged a crowd after a public meeting, injured 28. At Allahabad the subpostmaster and two others were killed in a riot. At Srinagar a mob of 12,-coo stormed a police station, freed three prisoners. At Bombay U. S. tourists were frightened away from British shops by saffron-robed women pickets. One tourist persisted in buying a hat, had it snatched from her head. Police found five live .bombs in a first...
When U. S. college students get into a serious discussion among themselves they usually start with religion, end with sex. Incomprehensible to most of them is the European student's passionate preoccupation with political and sociological problems, which often impels him to strike, riot, kill. But U. S. colleges have their minority quota of young men and women who look curiously, if conservatively, out upon the larger world, ponder its problems and predicaments. They are more likely to belong to a debating society than to the football team, more inclined to politics than to literature. Most of them like...
Simultaneously eight riot calls were turned in at Honolulu. A Marine detachment from Pearl Harbor was called out while sailors in dungarees fought civilians about the streets. With order restored, the Navy canceled all leave while its shore patrol was doubled...
...November 1923 occurred the famous Beer Putsch, when Adolf Hitler in a black frock coat, scowling over his smudge of a mustache, marched into the biggest beer garden in Munich, the "Burgerbraukeller," and proclaimed the National Socialist Revolution. There was a riot in the Odeonplatz. Adolf Hitler fled to the mountain village of Uffing and took refuge in the cottage of a devoted follower: Ernst Fritz Hanfstaengel, Harvard 1909, one-time Manhattan art dealer...
...riot and civil disturbance, to gunfire and cobblestone-pitching. President Sanchez Cerro is no stranger. Week before President Sanchez Cerro took the oath of office a General Pedro Pablo Martinez blustered into town after a flying trip from Santiago, Chile. He said that a long time ago President Sanchez Cerro had insulted him. He had come for satisfaction. Acquaintances of the principals persuaded the truculent warrior to observe the statute of duelling limitations, forget his grievance. He was packed off to Chile on the next boat...