Word: rioting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Identification did not always proceed smoothly. Cambridge police Sgt. Frederick G. Clancy, for instance, claimed to have arrested one defendant who was actually booked by the Metropolitan District Commission police. The charges against most of those arrested were "disturbing the peace" and "participating in a riot...
...Sisk: "Earp gets slapped down occasionally. He's a very human person." As its bible for Frederick Hazlitt Brerinan's scripts, the Earp show uses Stuart N. Lake's biography, whose critics may have nicked it (said one: "Fictionalized glorification of a tinhorn outlaw") but have riot killed it as a major sourcebook for Westerns since 1931. Says Sisk: "We've got to slice the truth pretty close to make it last, but we stick closely to the biographical details...
Members of Baker House, who boycotted the M.I.T. dormitory's evening meal on Friday and constituted part of the all-campus rioting group on Saturday, decided last night to denounce the riot and hinted hesitantly of future boycotts if the dormitory's food does not improve...
Janus, the latest laff riot that Broadway has farmed out to the provinces, is making an unsteady last stand at the Plymouth before it is consigned to the back pages of high school drama catalogs...
This year's freshman class has staged perhaps the most interesting Jubilee Committee campaigns in recent years. Climaxing their activities with two rallies and one near-riot Tuesday, three bogus candidates and their rabid supporters have spent an estimated $100 and countless hours in outdoing twenty-odd legitimate campaigners...