Word: rioted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Virtually all business came to a halt. Police killed four demonstrators, bringing the number of riot deaths since October to around 40, and the army had to be called out to halt the disorders...
...Zulfikar AH Bhutto, now one of his most implacable and potent foes. Under the so-called Defense of Pakistan Rules, emergency laws that Ayub has kept in effect since the Indo-Pakistan war more than three years ago, Bhutto was arrested in mid-November on charges of inciting to riot and endangering the national security. The President's second step was his promise that the emergency regulations would be canceled this week. Despite the fact that he had been freed, Bhutto greeted that announcement with skepticism. He had just begun a protest hunger strike, and he vowed that...
...biology teacher climaxed a 13-day occupation of the school's computer center by turning it into a shambles. They started a major fire in the building, littered the street with a blizzard of blank punch cards, and, like latter-day Luddites, demolished the two computers with axes. Riot police broke through barricades and arrested 97 people, but not before the rioters had done more than $2,000,000 of damage, twice the previous record for destruction of property, which was set only last month by radicals at Tokyo University...
Consider the lines. Things aren't so good in Old Vienna. The students are rumbling; the peasants are restless. Emperor Franz-Josef (played in a triumph of miscasting by James Mason), surveys the latest student riot from the palace balcony. Line (in a tone of melancholy): "So we've come to this...
...Urban Violence." The course's instructor--Siegfried M. Breuning, visiting lecturer in Transportation, cancelled the course on Feb. 7 after 85 black students appeared at the first meeting to protest the course's alleged "racist" plans to "devise programs to further contain and supress" urban blacks by developing a "riot-control technology...