Word: rioting
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...Italy, those whose political strategy is to drive others to riot are put in jail. In America, we can recognize those whose aim is agitation rather than presentation of their views. But--appropriately--we can do very little more...
...visitor thought of a passage of bully rhetoric in Theodore Roosevelt's African Game Trails, the record of his 1909 safari. The rhino, wrote Roosevelt, "seemed what he was, a monster surviving over from the world's past, from the days when the beasts of the prime ran riot in their strength, before man grew so cunning of brain and hand as to master them...
TIMES ARE tough all over. Used to be any drugged-out freak with a forged press card could peddle a kilo of dope, change his name, and catch the next flight out to the civil war, riot, or acid orgy of his choice...
...fall of 1823 and various other occasions before and since, this organic society fell apart. In a rare show of unity students during these times exercised their collective force in an attempt to influence institutional affairs. In 1823, the quality of the food incited a campus-wide riot that resulted in numerous expulsions. In 1969, the presence of ROTC recruiters on campus prompted a takeover of Harvard's main administrative building and ended in a police siege. In both these cases, the issues were of sufficient concern to motivate a large group to change the minds of a reluctant administration...
About a decade and a half later, the food and Kirkland's paternalistic attitude inspired the worst riot in Harvard's history. In 1823 students ransacked University Hall destroying furniture throughout the building. When Kirkland expelled four of the people involved, the senior class responded by staging a boycott. Not to be outdone, expelled 37 seniors, more than half the class...