Word: rioting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Other convicts had good cause to hate Hudson. He stabbed one fellow inmate in the neck with a screwdriver. He threw pepper into the eyes of others. During the Jackson riot Hudson burned not only prison property but the personal belongings of other prisoners. And night after night, when lights were out. Jim Hudson spoke softly of his hatred for all men-including those who lay tossing on their cots in nearby cells. For these sins against prison society he was called horribly to account...
Almost anything can set the students off. In Aligarh five years ago, they killed a teacher who refused to promote those who had failed their exams. In 1953 Allahabad students raided the railway station, sabotaged trains, fired public buildings. Last year, when eight students were dismissed after another riot, the rest of the student body caused so much trouble that the university closed for a month. In the state of Bihar students launched a four-day reign of terror because the State Transport Authority refused to grant them special bus fares. They hurled bricks at police, raided a bank, burned...
Yale police chief John H. Bowers and Captain Thomas Cramer will arrive in Cambridge Friday night or Saturday "to observe the conduct of our students," but probably will not act unless there is a large riot involving many Yale...
...society began its journey westward from Beacon Hill to Brookline and finally to Wayland, Weston, and Wellesley. Since 1900 the biggest thing that has happened to Boston is Mayor Curley and he is still happening. The sale of his library at Lauriat's a week ago started a near riot...
...Crimson has faced this year. Brown has a tendency to play rough bruising soccer--not entirely within the rules. If officials are not careful in a Brown game, it often gets away from them. This occurred in the Bruin-UConn contest Oct. 30, when a full-scale riot developed on the field...