Word: rioting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...women's rights to hit home, we must understand that the determination which led the women to triumph sprang not simply from their frustration and anger, but from the faith that their position was, and is, right. Frustration led them to dynamite the Chancellor's mansion, burn theaters, and riot, but it was a moral frustration and not just an animal...
...University of Florida--and at countless smaller institutions, regents have imposed strict censorship over college newspapers, using financial control of the papers' operations to exact editorial compromises. At Berkeley, the California regents cracked down when The Daily Californian endorsed a political rally which evolved into a small-scale riot; at Texas, the regents--who had never been fond of The Daily Texan's antiwar editorials--tightened the purse-strings when the paper exposed a misappropriation of $600,000 by the regents; at Florida, The Daily Alligator found a regent appointee in the position of editor-in-chief after...
...knew, who had been waiting a long time for that day, was in the Health Services with the flu. As he watched the police forays down Mt. Auburn Street, he begged the nurses to let him out. Instead, he ended up on the phone to The Crimson filing riot reports from his fourth-floor room...
...last time a President of France visited Djibouti, in 1966, the city erupted in anti-French riots. Though an Issa-led independence movement has weakened since then, French authorities imposed stringent security measures for Pompidou's call. Some 240 riot-control experts were flown in from France to bolster the regular military force of 5,000, which includes one of the two remaining units of the French Foreign Legion stationed abroad. (The other is in Madagascar.) A French frigate stood guard in Djibouti Harbor...
...unilateral, unprecedented action, was reflected in the editorial columns of the Crimson that Spring. The mass meetings held in Harvard Stadium occasioned some of the paper's most thorough reporting, and relations with the Administration deteriorated even more. For a generation of Crimson editors, the act of summoning riot-equipped police to the Harvard Yard stood as tantamount to treason...