Word: rioting
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...somebody else, somewhere else. I know this is not a very praiseworthy point of view, but I feel the negroes have already made enough progress to last the next 100 years and there is such a thing as overdoing it ... I lived right in the middle of one race riot in which negroes committed atrocities equal to any in Viet...
...pornography, so often not really erotic but merely dehumanizing, can be a symptom of social disorder. Sex has often been used as a political weapon for rebellion (and is therefore suspect in totalitarian societies). Open sexuality can be seen as a sign of freedom, yet it can also run riot to the point where it becomes both destructive and compulsive and thus ultimately unfree...
These feelings intensified during the mass strike and student riot that began in 1968. Scott says that every day, he received either subtle or overt peer pressure about the Vietnam War. During these years, he says, he was popular and adjusted in school--he was elected class president and spoke French without an accent; but gangs would scream epithets like "Yankee Murderer" or "Imperialist...
...regime of King Juan Carlos faced a grimmer spectacle of unrest than it did last week. The northern Basque province of Alava was in a vicious, rebellious mood. The provincial capital of Vitoria was completely shut down, and the industrial city's 180,000 inhabitants seethed with bitterness. Riot police sent in by the national government had shot dead three young demonstrators outside one of Vitoria's churches; at least 100 more citizens were wounded in the melee...
When some 5,000 workers descended on the big, modern church of San Francisco de Asis last week for just such a meeting, police ordered them to disperse. They refused, and riot squads began lobbing tear gas and smoke bombs near-some say into-the church. In panic and anger, the crowd spilled out of windows and doors. The police shot into the crowd with small arms and machine guns; they contend that the workers attacked them. As news of the dead and wounded spread through the city, hundreds of people rioted, tearing down traffic lights, breaking shop windows...