Word: rioting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outstanding incidents of alleged brutality occurred after Thursday's riot. In a sworn statement given to the university police, two freshmen charged that the city police had attacked them following their arrest. "As we drove away," one reported, "the officer who had arrested me turned around and hit me in the mouth. When we got to the corner and stopped for a traffic light, he turned around and hit me again." His companion, they alleged, was later beaten when the car stopped in an alley behind the police station...
Student unrest grew until Saturday afternoon, when a crowd of more than 1500 Yalies converged on the annual St. Patrick's Day parade, throwing snowballs at marching policemen and interrupting the procession. A 60-man riot squad arrived on the scene, armed with billy-clubs, blackjacks, and a fire hose, which was eventually turned on Calhoun College to quiet rioters...
...while Type II vaccine is supposed to give 100% protection only against Type II disease, it is claimed to give about 60% protection against Type I also. As hoped, Type I disease began to decline sharply as 205,000 children under eleven took their medicine (it took the riot squad to control the crowds), and there was not a single case of Type II disease...
...Spit. In Rome teen-age students -most of them neo-Fascists-marched on the Austrian embassy and hurled stones at the riot police, who doused them with fire hoses and chased them down in red Jeeps. Going before the Chamber of Deputies to win a necessary vote of confidence for his new government, Italian Premier Antonio Segni attacked those who were making "political capital" of the South Tyrol issue, insisted that it is a "matter that concerns Italy alone." He was promptly voted into office by 333-248, the biggest majority that any Italian Premier, even De Gasperi...
...London for medical help, the doctor and Anna are held as hostages. Not since Faulkner's Temple Drake was held captive in a Memphis brothel has a novelist contrived such powerful scenes of terror. While the key gangster gives Chance a going over, the Arabs begin to riot in the town. Buildings are bombed, the gangster's house is attacked by the mob; and while Chance fights his love for Anna and takes his physical beating, he fights the tougher battle of a religious man trying to find the grace that will keep him spiritually sane. If Chance...