Word: rioting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...occasionally the pressures of his academic load lead the Tech student to release himself in a more spectacular manner. Last May, for example, a water fight broke out between two fraternities and broke out between two fraternities and ended up in a riot. A District Judge, almost hit by a water bomb, called the police, and before the excitement was over 47 M.I.T. men had been arrested...
...with detergent-had been completed at home. Great Danes are just too big to do all of their primping in public. But smaller breeds in the Westminster Kennel Club show at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden last week turned the rank and echoing Garden cellar into a tonsorial riot. Handlers and owners worked over their charges like anxious mothers. Long hair was stripped and scissored, combed and brushed; paws were groomed. "Of course it's illegal," muttered one handler vigorously covering black smudges with cornstarch. "But what in hell are you supposed to do when you have...
...first bounce some 15 ft. back of the plate. It was all too soft for Connie. His only equipment a fingerless kid glove, Connie walked out to the mound one day and told his pitcher to fire the ball overhand. The unexpected stunt almost started a riot among the fans, but the style stuck...
Donning his most weather-worn clothes, and fired up with expectations of the traditional "sex, beer, riot," many a Freshman will soon head toward Memorial Hall for the Smoker. Like other Harvard customs such as maids and waitresses, the Freshmen Smoker no longer conforms to the lines of genteel tradition...
Garlanded and photographed, Billy Graham was cutting through India like Gabriel in a gabardine suit. In Bombay, bloody Communist-led rioting canceled his scheduled meeting; he toured the riot area instead and spoke to some stone-throwers. "They all had very sweet smiles." he said afterward...