Word: rowdyism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...living hike). In exchange the P.B.A. would agree to drop its court suit. But the P.B.A. delegates rejected the pact, and later several thousand off-duty police, some hiding behind false noses, marched on city hall. That left the city facing not only the threat of more demonstrations and rowdyism, but that gravest of concerns: some form of police strike...
This view of the case has been set forth before, and is, perhaps, gaining adherents each year. While admitting that it has some truth in it, we are loath to believe that the exercises at the tree have so far degenerated into boyish rowdyism that the only course whereby the Seniors can show themselves still to be gentlemen is to abolish the whole performance. Cannot the much that is good be separated from the evil, and preserved to give variety to the diversions of Class...