Word: riot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Swinging into a rythmic "Beat B.U.!" chant, the marchers moved past Leverett House to Memorial Drive, engulfing unsuspecting bystanders and traffic. Outside Weld Boathouse, as the cheering mob swept northward toward the Square, the first of two attempts by B.U. hecklers to start a riot by overturning cars, was scotched by Sgt. James Twomey, of the University Police...
Last week, for the first time in history, somebody took U.N. seriously enough to riot against...
...American sailors . . . and British Guardsmen fought a pitched battle in Piccadilly early today," screamed the Daily Mail. The story could not have been less true. The sailors, explained Scotland Yard later, had only stood by amiably while London's bobbies rounded up an agile civilian drunk. The only riot remotely concerning the Navymen themselves occurred in Tottenham Court Road when authorities forgot to tell enlisted men about a dance scheduled at the Paramount Dance Hall. Only 50 sailors showed up. A shore patrol officer stopped by to explain this statistical affront to 450 disappointed London girls. The ladies, with...
...early Hitler quite the same sort of unpromising lowbrow crank as the Crimson evidently imagines Gerald Smith to be. Well, the Reverend Smith is not even now an ineffectual angel; he is held by many, and with reason, to have been the main organizer of the wartime Detroit race-riot. This would suggest that there is a nonacademic quality to Smith's oratory, that his propagation of racial and religious hatreds is closely allied to non-verbal political activity, that a speech by Gerald Smith might safely be defined in advance as incitation to violence. But Americans are rightly averse...
...never saw anything like it," said Superintendent Cook. "I've seen children cheer for their schools . . . but I never saw hundreds of children cry for their schools." The meeting turned into a riot. One Catholic board member was beaten, and two parents were arrested. Editorialized the Cincinnati Post: "The majority of the school board has forfeited completely the confidence of a large number of citizens...