Word: riot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Race. No European was killed, but there were ominous undertones of racial antagonism. From a rooftop in Old Delhi a TIME correspondent watched a riot area a mile and a half long in Chandni Chauk, heart of the bazaar district. Exploding tear-gas bombs sent the demonstrators into alleyways, wiping their eyes. Then banners peeked around corners again, lines re-formed and marched forward. The sound of rifle fire or sudden panic would send the demonstrators racing away. When police charged or fired into the crowds, angry roars burst with the hysterical fervor of a high-school cheering section...
...longer listless, Hindus in the Girgaun ran riot. Four double-decker busses were wrecked. One was set afire, blazed high in the sky. Traffic snarled. Foreigners were stoned. So were police, who answered with tear gas, then fired directly into the crowds. The small boy ran from one trouble spot to another. Finally he remembered some blackjacks that he knew about. He got them, took up a stand on the street corner, sold them for one rupee each...
...last good bird and duck hunting season for the duration. Reasons : 1) gunmakers are too swamped with war orders to spare time for sporting arms; 2) the government is taking all new twelve-gauge shotgun shells (most popular size) for aerial gunnery training,-war-plant guards and the police (riot guns). Plenty of ammunition is in stock for this year's expected civilian demand, but there will be little left over...
This is the wrong season by the calendar but the spirit which has given rise in the past to many a spring riot seems to be abroad in an abbreviated form. Witness Gerald D. Rosenbloom '44, who returned from a date recently to find the minutest remains of a 25-pound cake of ice disappearing before his eyes...
...drilling for riot formations, they are trained in the best methods of breaking through crowds and breaking up mobs. Forming in a V shaped wedge, they are taught to rush through the mob and grab the leaders. The formation is very similar to the "flying wedge" once used in football...