Word: rioted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...workers was a sticking point. After two days peaceful picketing during which only milk, ice, beer, bread and fuel were delivered, wholesale merchants demanded police convoys to resume food deliveries. A picket truck blocked the path of a produce truck convoyed by twelve police cars. Police opened fire with riot guns. One policeman jumped the strikers' running board, was knocked on the head. Other strikers broke police lines, rushed to the scene. Police fired again. Fifty pickets were wounded, most of them in the arms and legs. One died next day. Overtures for a general strike were made...
...ttingen. including the aristocratic Korps. Promptly more than 1,000 capped and beribboned student nabobs met in mass protest. While they vowed defiance to Adolf Hitler's minions, capless and unribboned students approached, jeering the Korps, shouting "Heil Hitler!" At this the nabobs attacked, starting the bloodiest riot seen in years at Gottingen. To stop it shocked professors called the police who called firemen who rushed to the scene with all Gottingen's fire engines and restored order by heroic squirting...
...moon has no mushy tears in its eyes. . . . Freud has been dethroned. . . . Companionship and sympathetic understanding are the two goals which the new poets are seeking." Wrote a Pennsylvania boy: Do we love the less That our love is quiet? That we find heart-peace Though we miss heart-riot...
...every open window they saw in the strike districts. Then tanks arrived. Cr-r-r-unch-down went the workmen's barricades and bayonet work began in earnest. On the fourth night Amsterdam's hospitals were full and eight deaths had been chalked up but the "Dole Riot" seemed about over...
...Unamak, Greenland, where he will paint, write, live mostly on shark, seal & whale, initiate his 13-year-old son Gordon into Eskimo life. Said Artist Kent: "A very fine people, the Greenlanders. All marvelous physical specimens. . . . Their personal lives are free and unrestrained. . . . Their social life is a riot. If it weren't for the necessities of getting a living, they'd dance all the time, all night and every night...