Word: rioting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard's hockey team did not leave the ice Wednesday night because the teams had been fighting. Coach Johnny Chase called his men off to prevent a wholesale riot among the large crowd at the New Haven arena...
Abbot dropped his weapon and started swinging, but fell in the process. While he was rising from the ice, Moher hit him in the face with the heel of his stick. Abbot was removed to the hospital, and Chase called the game, for a riot was imminent. Subsequently, doctors put 26 stitches in Abbot's lip and check...
Thrown out of the Dunster dining room Wednesday evening when their impromptu canvassing almost started a riot, two students came back last night to continue garnering signatures for Universal Military Training. This time they had official sanction, and gleaned 147 autographs from 350 House members...
...riot matter much anyhow: all available wall space was covered with pictures of the President-("Help Perón -Vote for His Men") and La Señora ("The Standard-Bearer of the Workers"). All the while, the radio blared: "A vote for Perón is a vote for Social Justice...
...affair with a tough little Eurasian named Thelma Morrison-one of those clinical matings, ruthlessly antiromantic, which seem to be a feature of contemporary fiction, whether laid in Bombay or Westchester. His sister goes to jail in a riot, his friend Salim is assassinated and he himself attacked in ambush. His project for an airline transporting pilgrims comes to nothing (the pilgrims get airsick) and he settles down to a job as a commercial airlines pilot...