Word: rioted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...where we'll start to get them--through what they think of as being their fun. As soon as we convince them that it's more fun on our side, they'll want to be like us, they'll take drugs, they'll wear clothes like us, and riot at the beach on their spring vacations. The kids will. As soon as they get jobs, they become part of the air conditioned system. But we've all seen how this youth revolution can spread. It sems to be a product of our increasingly dense population that kids are becoming more...
...years apiece in prison. A month ago, Judge William Bickett frankly confessed that he might have been guilty of "bad judgment" in the cases of Percy Valle Barfield, 17, Frederick Lockamy, 18, Leo Stewart Jr., 19, Dubois Scotty Gather, 20, and Jesse Jones, 21. Bickett noted that a race riot had broken out in the Benson area before the time of the trial and admitted that he intended the severe sentences as a "deterrent...
DESPITE these hearings--and the innumerable Congressional Record pages which individual members of Congress filled with attacks on student militants--virtually none of the "anti-riot" bill introduced this session have yet made much headway in Congress...
...only college-related appropriations bill thus far passed by both houses is that of the NASA. As approved, this bill contained an "anti-riot" amendment first passed with several bills in the last session of Congress. The amendment calls for cutting off aid to any student who has disrupted operation of a college. Determination of what constitutes disruption is, however, left to the colleges, who have not been particularly anxious to enforce the provision. To date, no aid has been cut off under such amendments, although they have been in existence for over a year...
...revolutionaries' aim in 1918 was to take over Berlin, where the police chief was an outright sympathizer and bands of sullen unemployed workers stood ready to riot. Despite warnings from the astute theorist Rosa Luxemburg that revolution was premature, the Spartacists kept urging revolt in the streets. In January 1919, they got what they asked for: an uprising. The desperate Socialists, who had done their best to cooperate with the far left, turned to the far right for help. Remnants of the Kaiser's army, informally organized into Freikorps, marched into Berlin, ruthlessly smashing the rebellion and executing...