Word: rioting
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Koocher cautioned Harvard students against falling into the same kind of apathy which seems to be gripping much of the local electorate these days, "just because the tax rate has gone down a little, and we haven't had a race riot in a few years...
...check the action and talk music. For sport everyone played Monopoly, adding a few refinements that made the game more like the Jersey boardwalk they knew. There were two special cards: a Chief McCarthy card (named in honor of a local cop who rousted musicians indiscriminately) and a Riot card. The McCarthy card allowed the bearer to send any opponent to jail without reason; whoever drew the Riot card could fire-bomb any opponent's real estate...
Nobody was getting rich outside of Monopoly. In 1970 Asbury Park was the scene of a bad race riot, and the tourists stayed away. "The place went down to the ground, and we rode right down with it," says Miami Steve. There were jobs to be had in a few of the bars, playing easy-listening rock, but Springsteen and his pals disdained them because, as he says simply, "we hated the music. We had no idea how to hustle either. We weren't big door knockers, so we didn't go to New York or Philly." Adds...
...year director of the city's Health and Hospitals Corporation, has resisted cutbacks; he even quashed a report on possible economies that was prepared by his own staff. A close observer of city affairs notes hyperbolically: "Some of the neighbors, in league with the more radical doctors, will riot, kill and burn to keep the hospital from being closed...
Then there are the weird things that can happen only in the bushes, like games being stopped because of tornadoes or a brawl in the stands. One particular riot spilled over onto the field, and Wolff's team ended up losing half its gloves and bats...