Word: rioting
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...ambulance and a group of Harvard University Police officers descended on the sixth semiannual Leverett House 80s Dance on Saturday night to stop what some students feared were the beginnings of a riot...
...They kind of came in thinking it was a riot, with their clubs up," Perkins said. "But no force was used...
Until last week, Palestinian officials were openly worried that a new intifadeh would be directed at them as much as, or instead of, the Israelis. The strongest warning came in July, when Arafat's gendarmes claimed a seventh torture casualty, provoking an anti-P.A. riot in the victim's hometown of Nablus. When the trouble spread to nearby Tulkarem, Palestinian security suppressed the unrest by shooting and killing a protester. The revolt sent shock waves through the P.A. and raised concerns that other insurrections would follow...
...would the forebears of Bob Lloyd, the Missourian who runs Bodine Aluminum in St. Louis and nearby Troy. Here Japanese workers hold Shinto ceremonies to celebrate milestones such as a new furnace or the casting of the 1 millionth engine part. "Our people think the plant ceremonies are a riot," says Lloyd...
...imagine what will happen when snow starts to fall, the temperature starts to drop and Quadlings start to hibernate. The shuttle bus lines will begin to look like a bread riot. But there won't be any bread, because it will be winter in Boston. And the riot will be pointless, because it won't create any more seats on the shuttle. We'll all be cold and hungry, selling our souls for precious standing room in the aisles. To this will we be reduced...