Word: rioting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...starred flag of Ho Chi Minh's Moscow-backed guerrillas, marched on the harbor crying: "Down with American aid!" Before they reached the docks, the marchers were turned back by truncheon-swinging native police. Then the march turned into what the Communists wanted-a well-planned, carefully supervised riot...
...debate had been so heated that Congressman Tom Steed of Oklahoma finally threw up his hands in disgust. "The chairman cannot preside over a riot," said he. For 19 days behind closed doors, the House Education and Labor Committee had wrangled, but it was still getting nowhere on the Senate-approved federal aid-to-education bill...
Catastrophe Averted. Postwar Italy's worst parliamentary brawl ended a few minutes later, quelled by chamber ushers acting as a riot squad. "Fortunately," said Milan's moderate Corriere della Sera, "what might have been catastrophe turned into grotesquerie. But the nation is tired of grotesquerie in parliament...
...light, directly with the switchboard. Even when there is no particular trouble brewing, and there usually isn't, the policeman must call in once every hour during the day, and every half-hour from midnight to dawn. When there is a really big disturbance, like last fall's Square riot, the switchboard becomes an intelligence center, directing police and telling curious people "why all those boys are out in the Square at this time of night...
...West. Factory managers, non-Communist foremen, and workers also fled before the Reds. Said one refugee: "This isn't a purge any more-it's a pogrom. Germany hasn't seen anything like it since the Kristallnacht of 1938, when the Nazis ran riot against the Jews...