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Word: rioting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cayuga's waters reverberated with the aftermath of Friday's riot in which 1500 Cornell students splattered the Dean of Men, Frank C. Baldwin, with an egg. The students were protesting a proposed ruling that co-eds no longer be permitted to attend unchaperoned parties in off-campus rooming-houses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Egg Hits Dean In Cornell Riot | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

Belgian consul general in Damascus, and found 33 submachine guns, 37 pistols, a time bomb and 1,500 rounds of ammunition jampacked in the trunk. De San, a millionaire eccentric who admitted making ten such trips in the last few weeks, was found to be carrying riot directions fc-r persons in Beirut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LEBANON: Bloodletting | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

...Caracas riot, Vice President Nixon was chatting casually with TIME-LIFE Correspondent Don Wilson about the rumors of an assassination. "You look a little bit like me," joked Nixon. "Tell you what -you ride in my place in the limousine, and I'll put on a press badge and go with the press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Stones, Spit & Soroche | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

...power of the real anti-Americans was made clear in the Lebanese seaport of Tripoli. There a mob, demonstrating against the assassination of a pro-Nasser editor, ran amuck, burned the USIA library. Before the riot was over, some 15 were dead, another 30 wounded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LEBANON: Anti-U.S.manship | 5/19/1958 | See Source »

...thoughtfully arranged to bring up three truckloads of stones so that the demonstrators did not even have to bend down to find their missiles. Taking aim, the crowd managed to break 57 windows in the assembly building while Tahitian gendarmes tried vainly to recall what the textbooks said about riot control. An official who still retained a dim memory of how these things are handled in Europe ordered fire hoses turned on the crowd- but the water pressure proved so low that the demonstrators were gently sprayed instead of being driven from the street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAHITI: Paradise Regained | 5/19/1958 | See Source »

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