Word: rioting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...voice of Henry Wallace, as insistent as a cicada on a hot summer day, sounded in the Midwest last week. Its sound stirred his followers to action, caused a small-sized riot, and raised a fair-sized bundle of cash...
...serious incident or "Springtime riot" marred the first outdoor political rally in two years...
Suddenly Moher prodded Abbott in the ribs with the butt end of his stick. Abbott dropped his stick to punch Moher. Moher knocked him down with the stick, hammered him. With a riot in the making, Coach Chase refused to continue! the game. It took 26 stitches to close a wound in Abbott's cheek. Said Chase: "If it had been on a street corner, it would have been criminal." In collegiate circles these days, it was just hockey, new style...
Robert Kiphuth, director of Yale athletics, last night predicted a general investigation of Ivy League hockey officiating as a result of the near-riot that terminated Wednesday's Harvard-Yale game in New Haven...
Earlier in the day Bingham had endorsed the action of Coach Chase in removing his Crimson team from the ice. Dave Abbot, a Varsity wingman, had received a bad head wound from the stick of Eli captain Artie Moher. Chase fearing a riot had refused to allow his team back on the rink...