Word: rioting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Premier Adnan Menderes expressed dismay, moved in tanks, and arrested 4,300 rioters. But many observers were convinced that someone had organized the riots, at least at the start-perhaps to divert attention from Turkey's growing economic distress. They pointed out that the rioters arrived in well-organized squads, equipped with crowbars and iron claws to pry open steel shop shutters, and that the government did not stop the riot until around midnight, when it had shown signs of becoming a general protest against the regime. Menderes suspended five newspapers for charging the government with failure to stop...
Spreading Boycott. There was nothing the police or the Guardia Civil could do. But students ringing a triumphant peal on the university bells gave the heavy-handed cops the excuse they needed. A police riot squad, backed by a fire-department engine squirting dye-stained water, charged into a group of 200 students in the College of Arts and Letters. Later, red-bereted Franco Guards reported a "black deed" committed by the students: a university portrait of Franco was missing and turned up later behind the medical school, with the word TRAITOR written across it. Governor Felipe Acedo Colunga closed...
...Force, is assigned the "sensitive" task of inducing her to "embrace democracy." After that, the script-mostly by Ben Hecht, though he has wisely refused to acknowledge it (TIME, Oct. 15)-degenerates noisily into a lot of Hechtic foolishness. For a couple of reels the leading comedian plays it, riot for goofaws, but for the quiet snickers he is really better at getting; yet in the last half of the picture he goes right back to the cheap tricks that in recent years have made many moviegoers give up Hope...
...marbled corridors of the Capitol, a growing, growling inauguration-day crowd waited too, under the steely eyes of state troopers and city police spotted through the building to prevent riot. Harried election supervisors filled out certificates of election for both candidates, and waited. And in their seventh-floor chambers of the courthouse, four justices of the Supreme Court mulled over the problem thrown to them three days before the inauguration for an eleventh-hour decision...
OCTOBER. Riot at the Freshman mixer. Explained one beaten Yardling, "I just never saw anything so horrible in my life." Harvard football team continues to lose. Says the captain, "We may not win, but we're consistent as all hell." The Reverend Mr. Buttrick admonishes the team for "thinking positively." A Harvard professor of economics is called before Congress to give his view on the possibilities for an economic collapse. Before a joint session he strokes his jaw and then flips a coin...