Word: riotous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While a toga-clad rabble-rouser egged them on, their legions grew to 4,000 in two riotous evenings (against a force of 32 Yard cops and proctors, augmented during the second demonstration by 25 tear-gas-tossing Cambridge police). Marching on Harvard Square and making the spring night hideous with an ad hominem battle cry-"Latin, Si; Pusey, No!" -the undergraduates got nowhere with a recalcitrant president, who (said the Crimson) would forevermore be "derided as the man who changed alma mater to foster mother...
...Cuban soil last week, it was inevitable that there would be shouts and shoving, mostly against the U.S. So, right on schedule, it came to pass. In Moscow, well-organized throngs marched on the U.S. embassy to toss inkpots and rocks; they were easily kept from getting really riotous by a phalanx of Soviet militiamen. In Rio de Janeiro, Bogotá, La Paz, Caracas, Mexico City and Buenos Aires, unruly mobs of students and workers milled in the streets and battled with police and one another. In Tokyo, left-wing students and Communists stormed around the U.S. embassy. In Egypt...
...that now the meetings are no more than riotous and scandalous sessions where there is no way to organize an objective debate, and which are filled with invective and insults. And then, as the United Nations becomes a, scene of disturbance, confusion and division, it acquires the ambition to intervene in all kinds of matters. This is especially true of its officers. It is anxious to assert itself -even by force of arms-as it did in the Congo. The result is that it carries to the local scene its global incoherence, the personal conceptions of its various agents...
...very funny; in minor roles Thomas Babe and Thomas Segall overplayed what could have been a very good thing. Laurie Gould as Doll Common was sexy. If the slow pace and heaviness of the production had not dulled one's senses, several of the scenes might well have been riotous...
After three riotous nights, the police had arrested 500 youngsters, and the local jail was as tightly packed as the motels and automobiles. When 72 of the ringleaders received jail terms and a dozen others were awaiting arraignment, the students became calmer and more cautious, and order returned to the streets. Telephone and telegraph facilities were strained to the limit, with messages from students to parents, and parents to city officials. Most were angry, but one father told the police: "Keep the damn fool in jail. I'll be down in three days...