Word: rioted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...five of the city's 60 lycées were shut down, some 80,000 teen-age boys and girls defied a government ban to gather on the Left Bank for a protest march that was to end up at the Defense Ministry. Squads of tough riot police made sure that the demonstrators never got anywhere near their objective, but there were some sharp skirmishes that left bloodied heads and at least a whiff of the tear gas that had drifted in clouds over the city five years earlier...
Matthews residents also instigated a massive Yard riot this Fall and sponsored a "jockathon." In the "jockathon" a resident ran around the Yard wearing only an athletic supporter to win a case of beer...
...women's rights to hit home, we must understand that the determination which led the women to triumph sprang not simply from their frustration and anger, but from the faith that their position was, and is, right. Frustration led them to dynamite the Chancellor's mansion, burn theaters, and riot, but it was a moral frustration and not just an animal...
...University of Florida--and at countless smaller institutions, regents have imposed strict censorship over college newspapers, using financial control of the papers' operations to exact editorial compromises. At Berkeley, the California regents cracked down when The Daily Californian endorsed a political rally which evolved into a small-scale riot; at Texas, the regents--who had never been fond of The Daily Texan's antiwar editorials--tightened the purse-strings when the paper exposed a misappropriation of $600,000 by the regents; at Florida, The Daily Alligator found a regent appointee in the position of editor-in-chief after...
...knew, who had been waiting a long time for that day, was in the Health Services with the flu. As he watched the police forays down Mt. Auburn Street, he begged the nurses to let him out. Instead, he ended up on the phone to The Crimson filing riot reports from his fourth-floor room...