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riot
noun as in uprising, disorder
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noun as in very funny happening
verb as in protest; cause an uproar
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Her father, the late actor Henry Fonda, witnessed the lynching of a Black man during the 1919 Omaha race riots when he was 14, casting him into becoming a lifelong liberal.
When the strike broke out, guards responded in riot gear and placed several participants alone in confinement, advocates and detainees say.
The Headhunters returned to L.A. in August with the Fab Four to play two shows at the Hollywood Bowl just weeks after the Watts riots.
Some of Williams’ papers had been stored in a bank, which was burned in the 1992 riots that consumed the city in the wake of the Rodney King verdict.
Eight people have gone on trial accused of rioting which caused "mayhem" and "carnage" in Ely, Cardiff, two years ago.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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