Word: riot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like single firecrackers, here & there, sporadic violence popped and sputtered on U.S. labor fronts last week. Strikes immobilized U.S. ships again, touched the nerves of one great city, tied up various factories and kept the movie industry in a state of riot. Workers around the nation fought each other and punched cops...
...jury filed into the trial room of the Lawrenceburg, Tenn. courthouse and faced pink, plump Circuit Judge Joe Ingram. For two tense weeks, 25 Tennessee Negroes had been on trial, 23 of them charged with the attempted murder of four white policemen in the ill-famed Mink Slide race riot at Columbia (TIME, March 11). Now, after one hour and 53 minutes of deliberation, the verdict was in: two guilty; 23 not guilty. Exclaimed white Defense Attorney Maurice Weaver jubilantly: "A victory for Americanism...
...that the unity of the majority was no more than skin deep. The majority hoped to demonstrate its solidarity by greeting the vote with a Vive la France, singing the Marseillaise and decorously adjourning. But a single muttered sentence wrecked that hope, and sent the Assembly into a near riot...
...Riot Act. In Brighton, Mass., a wag advertised 15 apartments for rent, in the Brighton Citizen, gave the police-station phone number...
Cream Bomb. Last week a 17-year-old high-school student died an agonizing death after eating a tainted cream puff, the kind known here as a creme bomba. That bomb exploded into a riot. Hundreds of fellow students attacked the shop that sold the poisoned cake. Two days later, the outbreak had turned into a citywide protest against profiteering and high prices, a demand for a 50% slash in prices or else. Thousands of cariocas, armed with bricks and clubs, took vengeance on the places they could not afford to patronize. The swank Roxy Theater, showing Mr. Deeds Goes...