Word: rioting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have heard discussion that if Harvard wins The Game this Saturday, it will be good reason to stage the first big riot in Cambridge since the Pogo era. I have been at Harvard for three years now and the undergraduate body has restrained itself remarkably well. Win or lose, I feel this week-end should not be the cause for breaking the admirable precedent these three years have established. Walter R. Winston...
Nevertheless, one local store has already made arrangements to protect its windows. In the 1950 riot, 13 Harvard and Yale students were arrested, after attacks on trolleys and trucks and the explosion of a number of firecrackers and sky-rockets...
...more of the working population. Some 377,000 Pennsylvanians are jobless; 120,000 have exhausted their unemployment compensation ($30 a week for 26 weeks); uncounted thousands more are what George Leader calls "underemployed," i.e., working less than 40 hours a week. A week before Election Day, a riot broke out in Donaldson's Crossroads, ten miles south of Pittsburgh, when 1,500 men turned out for 40 highway laborers' jobs...
...overflow crowd estimated at 5,000 caused a near-riot last night outside Arnold J. Toynbee's lecture in packed Sanders Theatre...
Police felt they could have prevented the near-riot had authorities placed loudspeakers in Memorial Hall to accommodate the overflow. "This wouldn't have happened if we had told them Sanders was full at 7:20 instead of letting them wait another 40 minutes," added a police spokesman...