Word: riot
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fall of 1823 and various other occasions before and since, this organic society fell apart. In a rare show of unity students during these times exercised their collective force in an attempt to influence institutional affairs. In 1823, the quality of the food incited a campus-wide riot that resulted in numerous expulsions. In 1969, the presence of ROTC recruiters on campus prompted a takeover of Harvard's main administrative building and ended in a police siege. In both these cases, the issues were of sufficient concern to motivate a large group to change the minds of a reluctant administration...
...thought they were regular policemen," reported a Lebanese campus guard. "They wore the red berets of the Squad 16 riot police, which made me unsuspicious. I was astonished to see them about ten minutes later racing out in a jeep with the professors. They were pointing guns to the professors' heads. One of them yelled at me, 'If you talk we shall finish...
When thousands of demonstrators set out in Manila last week to march on Malacanang Palace, the office of President Corazon Aquino, the police took standard precautions. To contain the roisterous crowd, which chanted demands for immediate land reform, 500 riot policemen equipped with truncheons and metal shields lined up in eight-deep rows at the foot of the Mendiola Bridge, the main approach to the palace. Two water cannons and eight fire trucks pulled up as well, and a contingent of Philippine marines, on temporary security duty at Malacanang, deployed behind the police phalanx...
Simple justice. Is not turning an elegant film noir like The Maltese Falcon into a lurid color riot a travesty? Like putting a mustache on the Mona Lisa...
...overwhelming, if one does not include cities like Youngstown, Ohio, where the steel industry has been nailed shut for the past few years, and small farms in Kansas and South Carolina that lie as graveyards to unpaid mortgages. Everybody seems to know everything everywhere. The television news displays a riot in an overcrowded Tennessee prison, a newly discovered poem by Shakespeare, an earthquake in Mexico, a bombing in Libya, starvation in Africa, a dinosaur bone...