Word: rioting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...five, Charles E. Beveridge, Peter D. M. Pereira, Arthur B. Ellison, Stephen Shohet and Rector K. Fox were arrested after allegedly participating an election eve "anti-Dever riot" on Cambridge Common...
Said Judge Louis D. Green finally, "The police did well in averting a riot . . . but I don't want to harm these boys." He allowed the nolo plea he had earlier suggested, although intimating he would otherwise find the five guilty...
Melodrama and misadventure characterized the last week of Adlai Stevenson's campaign. Five days before the election, while whistle-stopping through the East, he got word that a riot among the convicts at Illinois' Menard state penitentiary was still out of hand. Interrupting his campaign, Stevenson flew off to the prison to watch, pale and tired, as armed state troopers routed out 300 rebellious prisoners who had barricaded themselves in a cell block. Governor Stevenson, who got to the scene in time to go over the plan of action with Lieutenant Governor Sherwood Dixon and other state officials...
...remember anything. Leave me alone." Thus veteran French Communist Andre Marty, 65, answered party charges of undermining Communist unity in France (TIME, Sept. 29). To Marty, professional party roughneck who fought in the 1919 Black Sea mutiny, the Spanish Civil War and ir many a skullbreaking French Communist riot, the party gave one month's time for "auto-criticism." Last week, dissatisfied with his "obstinate refusal . . . to confess ... his serious political deviations," the French Communist Party fired him from its ten-man Politburo...
...anticlerical riot...