Word: rioted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...your dreams. NBC's coverage of the Olympics may have been overly manicured for TV, but it was a riot of spontaneity compared with the Republican Convention. In an effort to put their best face on-camera, the G.O.P. planners jammed all their high-profile speakers into one hour each evening (catering to the networks, which had scheduled just one hour of coverage on most nights). And the networks, reluctant to air a four-night campaign commercial, tried to show as little of the official proceedings as possible. Yet finding any real news to cover--or, indeed, anything unplanned--proved...
...Dole ran for majority leader in 1985, his friends watched in horror as he frittered away week after week making speeches instead of locking up votes. John Danforth of Missouri, Bob Packwood of Oregon and John Warner of Virginia finally had to pull Dole aside and read him the riot act. "You need to ask people for their votes," Warner implored. "You need to be getting commitments." But having said that, they went and did it for him anyway. Over the years, on vote after vote, his Senate colleagues were left to intuit what he wanted...
...canvas, protected by his manager Rock Newman. It took about 35 minutes for police to restore order. Twenty-two people suffered minor injuries and eight people, including Golota's trainer, Lou Duva, were hospitalized. Ten people were arrested. Many ringside observers described the event as the worst boxing-related riot they had seen. The Garden, which had been the mecca of boxing before losing its place to Las Vegas and Atlantic City, has been trying to revive the sport in New York City. After not holding any professional fights between March 6, 1993 and December 15, 1995, the Garden...
BELFAST, Northern Ireland: Riot police and British soldiers who have been trying to contain Protestant marchers have made a 180-turn in their strategy to contain violence that has broken out in Northern Ireland since Sunday. Instead of trying to prevent the marches, which celebrate 300-year-old victories over Catholics, TIME's Helen Gibson reports that police have decided it's safer to keep Catholic protesters at bay and let the marches go through. About 1,300 Orangemen, an Ulster Protestant order, were given permission to march down the disputed Garvaghy Road to the beat of a single drum...
...novel--drifting haphazardly into the possession of different people or, more precisely, members of different immigrant groups struggling to establish themselves in the U.S. After the accordion maker (who, somewhat portentously, is always called that, even though Proulx gives his son the name Silvano) is killed in a xenophobic riot, the instrument finds its way to a German immigrant farmer on the Great Plains. He and his fellow Germans suffer persecution from the locals during World War I, and when he dies, the accordion winds up in Texas in the hands of a Mexican American similarly persecuted by gringos...