Word: riotously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard Sociologist Talcott Parsons is "skeptical" that the pillage in New York would set off a new nationwide wave of disturbances. But behaviorists generally believe that, given a similar combination of total darkness, blistering heat and simmering anger on the part of an underclass, much the same kind of riotous looting could erupt in almost any other city...
...periodic military putsches and bottomless corruption. Yet at the height of the Viet Nam War, the U.S. shipped squadrons of bombers and some 50,000 troops to this California-size land, making it a fortress of American power. As the war in neighboring Indochina began to wind down, riotous Bangkok students overthrew Dictator Thanom Kit-tikachorn in 1973 and ushered in a neutralist government that requested U.S. withdrawal. Then began a series of shaky coalitions assembled by groupings of Thailand's 54 parties. Now, TIME's David Aikman cabled, the collapse of Thailand's three-year experiment...
...thousand Koreans work as long-haul truck drivers. The 1,200 Koreans building a 100-mile stretch of highway in Saudi Arabia work ten hours a day, 28 days a month for $1,100 (five times their pay back home) and fly to Cairo every two months for three riotous days of rest and relaxation...
...damage. Gradually, the unrest spread to Kagiso, Tembisa and other neighboring townships, forcing police to call for reinforcements from Pretoria. As fears rose that the rioters might break out of police cordons and attack white suburbs, Minister of Police James Kruger invoked a section of the country's Riotous Assemblies Act that forbids all outdoor gatherings without official permission. By Week's end blacks−angered by the mindless vandalism−turned on the rioters. Residents of one township beat off a gang that tried to wreck a beer hall...
...Englanders." Indeed, often the "mob" served quite legal ends, as when the hue and cry was set up to apprehend a thief, or when measures had to be taken to deal with public health problems. Small wonder, then, that a member of a mob was rarely convicted for his riotous actions. In the 20th century we have become accustomed to seeing theft and looting accompany mob action, but surprisingly that association did not exist in the 18th century...