Word: rioted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...workers at the site--"Irish, Italian, and others of working-class descent" as he put it--for whom the dedication ceremony was the culmination of 18 months hard work. "Think of their reaction," Jackson said; "They will be there in numbers." And here he noted the probability of a riot between hardhats and protesters. He also tried to divide us along racial lines, glancing meaningfully at the members of the Black Students Association as he said that these workers were from Boston and Cambridge and might not like the way we looked. The implication that Jackson thought a racial confrontation...
...approached the courthouse. Decatur police and Alabama state troopers stood in front of the entrances to the courthouse, allowing only lawyers and those appearing to be on court business inside. Cottonreader and two associates approached but were told they could not enter on the pretext they might incite a riot. Most of the marchers returned with blankets and camped out on the front lawn of the building until a court order removed them...
Thus, it is no surprise to see Gov. Meldrim Thomson of New Hampshire react with riot police, mass arrests and full-page ads in The New York. Times which decry anti-nuclear protesters as soldiers for an un-American way of life--neo-Communist purveyors of revolution. Perhaps for the first time in his life, he is right...
...happened with almost every ethnic group in America, the Hispanics are learning that growing numbers and assertiveness often produce growing hostility. As far back as 1943, hundreds were injured in a Los Angeles race riot, an event dramatized in the current West Coast hit play, Zoot Suit, by Luis Valdez. But now the antipathy is becoming more intense and pervasive as the Hispanics become not only more visible but also more insistent on their rights...
...true either-her only income is her monthly $247 Social Security check, and her only saving consists of a prepaid burial-but when the rumors started spreading last week, a crowd of 300 curiosity seekers gathered in front of her house. So did 100 police, on horses and in riot gear, assigned to protect the house from vandalism. Said one skeptical youth: "If there is no money in there, why are all these police guarding the house?" By this time, Sheehan had fled to a convent for safety. It took police a full day of persuasion, plus 19 arrests...