A crowd of workers had gathered that day in Haymarket Square on West Randolph Street to demand an eight-hour workday, and as the police were dispersing them, someone threw a dynamite bomb.
As we dispersed after another mob interview, someone muttered, "Great, now we all have the same quotes".
But often it can take just one particularly disruptive prisoner - someone who has been "dispersed" - to upset a whole landing.
Its surface looks opaque till someone throws a rock, dispersing the scrim of floating calcite and revealing water blue-green, deep and beautifully clear.
As the party slowly dispersed after the last dance, I heard someone mutter something about "fiddling while Rome burns".
When I am unhappy, the most effective way to disperse the feeling is to reach out and support someone else who is in need.
Much of the money from them is dispersed to nonprofit entities, like the U.S. Olympic Committee (though nonprofit status doesn't mean someone isn't benefitting), but a bit of it is dispersed to profit-making entities — someone's got to build the stadiums and take the tickets and feed the spectators.
Unfortunately for the insurgents, someone leaked their plans and the military pretty easily dispersed it, killing 16 in the process.
Suddenly, as though someone has flicked off the vitriol switch, the crowd quietly disperses, some loitering to catch a handshake.
"It's monstrous that the legacy of someone so important in French culture could be allowed to be dispersed," said Valérie Bochenek, his former assistant.
