Word: rioted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the Middle East's biggest news was negative: for two weeks Nasser had shrieked his loudest to incite the refugees to riot against Jordan's King Hussein, and for two weeks the refugees had ignored him. In Aqabat Jabr the camp was quiet as a mosque at noon. The police force on duty (one sergeant, three enlisted men) snoozed peacefully in the sun. Here and fhere, children played. No one was listening to Gamal Nasser...
Nasser's campaign of hate finally seemed to be backfiring. Where a word from Radio Cairo was once enough to start a riot, Nasser's rantings produced not a murmur among Jordan's 500,000 Palestinian Arab refugees, and scores of refugee leaders trooped to the palace to pledge their loyalty. If Nasser's campaign had been designed to frighten Iraq's King Feisal or Saudi Arabia's Saud as a demonstration of what could be done to them, it failed even more miserably. Instead, it brought fresh evidence of the growing isolation...
...integration at Little Rock's Central High School, gave no promises. In fact, the word soon went out that his aides were on the telephone, whipping up support for the seven candidates supported by the segregationist Capitol Citizens' Council (included were the president and secretary of the riot-causing Mothers League of Central High School...
...descended Ortiz], we shall march!" That evening a temporary coalition of Ydigoras' rightists and non-Communist leftists, needled by a few Reds, and all united only in opposition to the M.D.N., marched into Central Park in downtown , Guatemala City, brushed aside the police and set off the first riot...
...last smoker, in 1956, freshmen consumed 600 gallons of beer and nearly caused a riot in Memorial Hall. Under attack from the Union Committee, the Student Council, and the Administration, the Smoker was formally terminated that year...