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  • 41Riot — This article is about a type of event. For other meanings of riot, see Riot (disambiguation). Teamsters, armed with pipes, riot in a clash with riot police in the Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934 …

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  • 42riot — 1 noun 1 (C) a situation in which a large crowd of people are behaving in a violent and uncontrolled way especially when they are protesting about something: The army were called in to put down the riot. | race riot (=between people of different… …

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  • 43riot — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ major, serious ▪ full scale ▪ bloody, violent ▪ deadly (esp. AmE) ▪ …

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  • 44riot — n. 1) to cause, foment, incite, instigate, spark (AE), spark off (BE), stir up, touch off a riot 2) to crush, put down, quell a riot 3) a communal; food; race riot 4) a riot breaks out, erupts 5) (misc.) to run riot ( to act wildly ) * * * [… …

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  • 45race — race1 /rays/, n., v., raced, racing. n. 1. a contest of speed, as in running, riding, driving, or sailing. 2. races, a series of races, usually of horses or dogs, run at a set time over a regular course: They spent a day at the races. 3. any… …

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  • 46Race — /rays/, n. Cape, a cape at the SE extremity of Newfoundland. * * * I Term once commonly used in physical anthropology to denote a division of humankind possessing traits that are transmissible by descent and sufficient to characterize it as a… …

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  • 47Race relations of Cincinnati, Ohio — Cincinnati, Ohio was a border town between slave states and free states in the Union during the Civil War. There have been many incidents of race based violence before and after the Civil War with the most notable and most recent one being the… …

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  • 48race — 1. n. & v. n. 1 a contest of speed between runners, horses, vehicles, ships, etc. 2 (in pl.) a series of these for horses, dogs, etc. at a fixed time on a regular course. 3 a contest between persons to be first to achieve something. 4 a a strong… …

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  • 49race — {{11}}race (n.1) act of running, c.1300, from O.N. ras running, rush (of water), cognate with O.E. ræs, which became M.E. resen attack, incursion, but did not survive into Modern English. Both the Norse and Old English words are from P.Gmc. *ræs… …

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  • 50East Saint Louis Race Riot — (July 1917) Outbreak of violence in East St. Louis, Ill. , sparked by the employment of African Americans in a factory holding government contracts. It was the worst of several attacks during World War I on African Americans newly employed in war …

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