Word: riotousness
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...feeling that the Berrigans are bogus on two counts. They claim to represent Christ, but in their insurrection they behave contrary to his teaching and example. They claim to be proponents of peace, but their conduct is riotous. They are hypocrites...
...thwart robberies, some small-shop owners in Manhattan now keep their doors locked during the business hours and have hired private patrolmen. Battered universities are also being hit by crushing increases in premiums. The University of California's bill to insure its buildings against fire, bombs and other riotous mishaps has leaped in just two years from...
Like Hopalong Cassidy sipping sarsaparilla in a riotous saloon, the entrants in the Clean-Air Car Race picked their way across the nation inhaling volumes of exhaust from other travelers. Their own machines were ingenious contraptions of varying degrees of purity powered by gasoline, batteries, propane gas or even steam...
...force him to sign a list of demands. Next day the president suspended 90 students for their part in the action. Doyle ordered that the students either be given prompt hearings or be reinstated pending final disposition of their cases. On the other hand, Doyle upheld the suspension of riotous students at the state university's Whitewater branch. The difference was that at Whitewater the militants had received an adequate preliminary hearing. - When a high school junior with long hair was sent home for violating a school-board dress code in Williams Bay, Wis., Doyle ordered him back...
...first proposed, the then Attorney General Ramsey Clark testified against it, underscoring the view of many legal scholars that its blunderbuss language was constitutionally questionable and might pose a threat to legitimate political activity. One major concern: a jury might infer that the organizers of a peaceful demonstration had riotous intentions even if hecklers or militants started a ruckus. After the convention, Clark refused to invoke the new law despite Chicago Mayor Richard Daley's contention that itinerant "terrorists" had caused the tumult...