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riot Hunting the indiscriminate following of any scent by hounds Riot Attica city in New York housing state prison; one of the worst prison riots in American history occurred there (1971). [Am. Hist.: NCE, 182] melee resulting from civil rights demonstrations (1963). [Am. Hist.: Van Doren, 585–586] civil uprising fueled revolutionary spirit (1770). [Am. Hist.: Jameson, 57] colonists rioted against tea tax (1773). [Am. Hist.: NCE, 341] “police riot” arguably cost Democrats election (1968). [Am. Hist.: Van Doren, 625] former annual Dublin county fair; famous for rioting and dissipation. [Irish Hist.: NCE, 784] conflict of capital vs. labor: miners strike en masse. [Fr. Lit.: Germinal] leader of the anti-Catholic riots of 1780, in which the idiot Barnaby is caught up. [Br. Lit.: Dickens Barnaby Rudge] Chicago labor dispute erupted into mob scene (1886). [Am. Hist.: Van Doren, 297] Ohio university where antiwar demonstration led to riot, resulting in deaths of four students (1971). [Am. Hist.: NCE, 1466] capital of Arkansas; federal troops sent there to enforce ruling against segregation (1957). [Am. Hist.: NCE, 1594]
British workers riot to destroy labor-saving machines (1811–1816). [Br. Hist.: NCE, 1626] antilandlord organization; used any means to combat mine owners (1860s, 1870s). [Am. Hist.: Van Doren, 272] anticonscription feelings resulted in anarchy and bloodshed (1863). [Am. Hist.: Jameson, 429] the reading it to unruly crowds, sheriffs under George I could force them to disperse or be jailed. [Br. Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 767] armed insurrection by Massachusetts farmers against the state government (1786). [Am. Hist.: NCE, 2495] district in Los Angeles where black Americans rioted over economic deprivation and social injustices (1965). [Am. Hist.: NCE, 1612–1613] uprising in Pennsylvania over high tax on whiskey and scotch products (1794). [Am. Hist.: NCE, 2967] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| There was riot and confusion enough in the treasury, but no violence that I saw. Never had his gold been so golden, his azure so dazzlingly clear and deep as on this particular May morning; while his fancy simply ran riot in the marginal decorations of woodland and spinney, quaint embroidered flowers and copses full of exquisitely painted and wonderfully trained birds of song. While I was allowing my fancy to run riot in wild conjecture on the possible explanation of the strange anomalies which I had so far met with on Mars, Sola returned bearing both food and drink. |
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