Word: rioting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...known to investigators. Born Francis Eugene Waldron in Seattle in 1905, he has used at least six aliases. As Frank Waldron he was arrested six times in five months during the stormy winter of 1929-30 in Los Angeles. Convicted of attempting to "rout" (a shade less serious than riot), he had jumped bail. At one time he had received a passport under the name of Paul Walsh...
...That seemed to inspire Les Canadiens. With two minutes to go, Forward Buddy O'Connor lashed in the winning goal. In Manhattan next night, Les Canadiens brought their local color along. While winning again and clinching first place, they engaged in Madison Square Garden's liveliest hockey riot in many a year (partial score: three misconduct penalties, an obstreperous fan's bald pate creased...
...rifle from the nearest cop. Another gendarme smashed his rifle butt into the attacker's face. Thousands of throats roared defiance of the police and the Government. Belgium, the European belligerent to recover most rapidly after the war, last week was having a bonus-hungry veterans' riot...
Strong Words. The outburst surprised old (75) Socialist Premier Camille Huysmans. To deputies trapped with him inside Parliament during the riot he said: "We have already spent 7½ billion francs on them. They have no right to complain...
...Another riot occurred later, when somebody referred, in the course of saying grace, to this "fresh instance of bounty" in the midst of what was described as the "ancient and fish like smell" of University Hall. The discontinuation of grace allegedly can be traced to the resulting disturbance. And, beyond doubt, it was just this attitude on the part of the student body that precipitated the final exit of overcooked ducks from University Hall, and the entrance of deans...