Word: riot
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Yesterday's rally began with a few thousand protesters gathering on downtown Wenceslas Square, but the crowd grew to 30,000 as demonstrators reached Narodini Street, where white-helmeted riot police beat demonstrators Friday...
...Washington Post reported yesterday that a 20-year-old man named Martin Smid died after being beaten by two riot police officers near Wenceslas Square on Friday. Police notified his parents that he had died in an accident, according to the newspaper, which quoted friends and witnesses it did not name...
...cradles everywhere. Inside, the experience of architectural structure is nearly kinetic: as you enter, a fake beam shoots past at eye level and simply stops in midair, cleanly cut off, while a fake column stops 10 ft. short of the floor, stalactite-like. Eisenman is relentless. His precisely orchestrated riot of pattern and angles continues even with the placement of fluorescent light fixtures in the basement, even in the arrangement of gravel on the roof...
...Wilder from the 1985 campaign. Without a cutting issue to transform the debate, the internal calculus in the Wilder campaign was that its candidate was mired at around 45% support, partly because of Democratic defections stemming from a rancorous coal miners' strike in southwestern Virginia and a Labor Day riot among black college students in Virginia Beach...
...nears. That some hard-liners would like to crack down on the internal unrest was demonstrated last week, when thousands of people held a candlelight vigil outside the Moscow headquarters of the KGB to mourn the victims of Joseph Stalin. When a few started a march toward Pushkin Square, riot police charged the demonstrators, knocking scores to the ground...