Word: rioting
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...riot brakes out in the Square. As street fighting rages for four hours, police use tear gas and clubs to break up a crowd that peak...
...invasion of Cambodia and the killing of four students at Kent State brought the street-fighters into action. Harvard Square stores were looted, the police riot squads poured into the Square, and the tear gas drifted as high as the Lowell House belltower...
Other events served to illuminate the resurgence of student anti-war spirit. One was the verdict in the long, sensational trial of the Chicago Seven--seven war protesters who were accused of conspiring to incite a riot when they demonstrated at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago...
...seven were acquitted in February of conspiracy charges. But five were found guilty of crossing state lines with intent of inciting riot. The charges against the five convicted--Jerry Rubin, Tom Hayden, Abbie Hoffman, David Dellinger and Kennie Davis--were later overturned, but not before the convictions touched off a wave of student protests...
...small, Old World university library (with the strange exception of the faux avant-garde, silver "elbow lamps"). Since it's another sparsely attended library, you can definitely find quiet and solitude here. Robinson Hall is one of those buildings of such mediocrity that pretty much nothing short of a riot would prompt you to leave the library and explore...