Word: riotousness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...month which wanes tonight has verged on sheer poetry of line and hue and motion. Why doesn't Harvard College distill the riotous reds and gleaming golds, the crisp dawns and the slanting sunlight of swift-shrouding evenings...
...half a century they suffered under the hated Japanese. With "liberation" came a dream of freedom. But then their country was divided by two governments, the Russian in the north and the U.S. in the south; they did not have enough rice; angry mobs fomented violence. In four riotous days last week 59 Korean policemen were killed at Taegu in the U.S. zone; 60 were wounded and another 100 reported "missing." Unsigned handbills in Seoul read: "Down with American Imperialism," and "Why only one hop [handful] of rotten foreign corn? Corn is for horses in the United States. If death...
...every Harvardman is either a little liberal or else a little conservative, ostensibly the trouble had something to do with politics. The Liberal Union was marching through the Yard, protesting Winston Churchill's "warmongering." Partisans of the Conservative League decided to break up the parade, and-Rinehart! The riotous reason was really spring, and like a maenadic overtone sounded the shrill, feminine piping of Radcliffe girls, now virtually coeds at Harvard...
...Alexander Bustamante, half-Irish boss of riotous Bustamante's Industrial Unions and self-styled "Prime Minister of Jamaica," was out to break the rival Trades Union Council, made up of government and public-service workers. Bushy-haired Bustamante had swept Jamaica's first democratic elections in 1944, boasted "I am the government," now ran roughshod over mild Governor Sir John Huggins...
...this week the Old Lion followed the A.F. of L. council to the golden sands of Miami on important business. Ahead of him he had sent a check for $9,000, representing January dues for his 600,000 United Mine Workers. After a decade of wandering, first along the riotous road of C.I.O.'s early marches, then on the thorny path of isolation, the prodigal was back...