Word: riot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beer, and a riot"--that used to be a work able definition of the freshman Smoker. Some people still consider it so. The post-war Smoker, however, is supposed to serve the useful purpose of promoting class unity and injecting some group spirit into the chaotic Yard. That's what the Student Council Committee on Freshman Affairs maintains, at any rate, and this body has presented considerable evidence that the new-model Smoker can indeed become a fine class-conscious force. But the Committee feels that the Smoker cannot be held earlier than February because of certain "organizational difficulties...
There was a near riot of pro-Conzelmen Washington students in 1940 when Jimmy resigned under alumni pressure. Last week (under no pressure) Jimmy Conzel-man resigned as coach of one of the most successful teams in pro football, the Chicago Cardinals. He was tired of traveling, and, at 50, he was moving back home to St. Louis to work full time at his job as an account executive for the D'Arcy Advertising Co. He also wanted to settle down to what he called "normal family life...
Seven, from the 42 candidates in the field, will be chosen in February. To try to join the select seven, Louis Lament and Roger Hunt staged a jazz concert, and the friends of John "Swami" Morey staged a self-styled "Hindu riot...
...Washington police riot squad got a new name (The Civil Disturbance Unit) and new equipment - 30-in. batons, tear-gas grenades, carbines, steel helmets and martian-like gas masks...
...social relations. There is the theory that a man who can get away from the daily grind of the desk for a year to read, discuss, and explore his specialty should be a better-prepared reporter the next time he covers a strike or an election or a race riot. There is the fact that Niemans have risen in their field individually, to make use of their better background in places where it will show...