Word: riot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Secretary of State Acheson sat down before his news conference last week, calmly slipped on his spectacles and read the riot act to two foreign nations in terms that might have been fighting words in the old days of hanky-pank diplomacy...
Nearly 50 Cambridge and University police answered calls to the Square to quell hand-to-hand fighting which started at 11:30 p.m. when a Harvard contingent attempted to break up a Princeton pep rally in the Square. More than 2,000 persons were involved in the riot...
Before the last wagonload of brawling students left the Square, police had thwarted an attempt to immobilize a Lochmere-bound trolley and the Cambridge fire department had answered one false alarm in the riot area...
...Tiger was burned in effigy on the State House steps while alert policemen stood by to prevent free-for-alls. There were precedents for their fears. In 1902, the Clemson cadet corps showed up for the game with drawn bayonets. In 1946 the Great Day splashed over into a riot. This time, except for a few Carolina enthusiasts who lobbed rotten tomatoes and grapefruit rinds at Clemson cars, the partisans were on their good behavior...
...Hill. In his hey-day, he had the cultured charm in his voice of the highest rank of Brahmin, yet, on the same night, he could go across the Hill to the North End and deliver a spirited, rabble-rousing speech that would practically incite whole national groups to riot. There wasn't anyone who Curley couldn't sell in Boston. He could as easily convince the millionaire Robert White to leave his money to the city for health improvements, as line up ward workers for a campaign...