Word: rioting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...guard died in "The Lincoln Day Break." ¶1952: a loo-ft. tunnel was discovered shortly after prisoners were given a dinner by the warden for digging no tunnels during the previous year. ¶1953: a convict-made bomb killed Prison Manager Albert Gruber. A two-day riot and $500,000 fire killed one prisoner, destroyed five buildings. One-quarter of the prisoners (400 men) held a "sleep strike" after using barbiturates to go on a mass bender...
...struck," cried Thaw's lawyer (who based his defense on "the unwritten law"), "for the purity of the home ... of American womanhood." When Evelyn came to court, dressed like an innocent schoolgirl in Fauntleroy collar and demure chapeau, crowds almost killed her with kindness, and the riot squad was rushed to the scene. The first trial ended in a hung jury, but in the second, Thaw was acquitted on grounds of insanity...
With the rally crowd forecast at near-riot size, Matthew J. Toohey, the chief of the University police, has ordered 20 more men to be on hand to prevent a disturbance. He was confident yesterday, however, that "everything will be all right...
Toynbee's appearance here last fall caused a near-riot as an overflow crowd of 5,000 demonstrated outside the theater. Demonstrators, gathering in lines from Sanders to Littauer Center, scaled Memorial Hall fire escapes and broke into the Psychological Clinic beneath the stage in attempts to enter the meeting...
...Associate Editor William Forbis, substituted for him in Argentina. Last week the two friends met again briefly in New York, just before Payne flew off to his new assignment. They compared notes on the frustrations of reporting a paradoxical land of blustering dictatorship and seemingly casual living, where bullyboys riot in the streets and solid citizens pretend not to notice. Both Payne and Forbis had their tense moments with the bullyboys, and both were arrested and questioned by Juan Perón's police...