Word: riot
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another student, speaking on condition of anonymity, saw about 50 youths began "ripping limbs off trees and throwing anything they could," including rocks, at a truck of security forces. He said hundreds of armed security forces in riot gear closed off the area by nightfall...
...next morning, 400 police officers in riot gear, under orders from former President Nathan M. Pusey '28 stormed the building and brutally removed the demonstrators...
...although President Derek C. Bok has never unleashed riot police upon students, Harvard's administration remains aloof and unresponsive to student and faculty initiatives...
...When riots were breaking out in many big cities in the late 1960's, Rizzo, often referred to as "America's toughtest cop," was determined to prevent them in Philadelphia. He once told Stokely Carmichael to "choose [his] words carefully" when the revolutionary civil rights leader came to the city to give a speech. He threatened, "I'm tellin' you, Mr. Carmichael, if you cause a riot in this town, I'm going to personally tear you apart. It'll take four orthopedic surgeons a week to put you together...
...Nathan Marsh Pusey '28, president of Harvard since 1953, opponent of Sen. Joseph McCarthy and something of a hero among liberals in the early part of his career, call in police clad in riot gear to break up the takeover...