Word: amok
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day Engineer Hecox told Eureka County coroner's jury a hair-raising tale. He said he had spotted a green tumbleweed covering the spot where his locomotive had run amok. Beneath, the rails had been loosened...
...Some 50,000 Chinese remained in Canton, from which hundreds of thousands fled in recent weeks, pitiful refugees. The 1,500 Japanese at latest reports had not run amok as Japanese did after the fall of Nanking, but were described by Associated Press as busy trying to check civilian looters and Chinese who were setting fresh fires. The Canton waterworks were wrecked by Chinese to cripple fire fighting efforts...
...such a fate as Frank Lloyd Wright's. In 1913, just after he had finished his most light-hearted job, a "goodtime place," as Wright called it, the Midway Gardens in Chicago, a telephone call from Spring Green smote him with catastrophe. A Barbados Negro servant had run amok at Taliesin, murdered its mistress, her two children, an apprentice and three others, burned the living quarters to the ground. Wright went to Taliesin, buried his mistress alone, and lived there alone for months. Then he began to rebuild Taliesin. Finished in 1915, finer than before, the house was Frank...
...that the machine-gun attack on the Panay's survivors was ordered personally by Colonel Kingoro Hashimoto, leader of an especially notorious Japanese military clique. Colonel Hashimoto was generally regarded as one of the heads behind the unsuccessful Tokyo putsch nearly two years ago, when Army detachments ran amok, murdered Finance Minister Korekiyo Takahashi, seized the Metropolitan Police building (TIME, March 9, 1936 et seq.). Afterwards 15 young Japanese officers were executed but Colonel Hashimoto, having political influence, was merely cashiered. This year Japan's need of trained officers in China put him back in uniform...
Paralleling The Lost Patrol (1934), the simple narrative of The Thirteen supplies its own suspense. Director Mikhail Romm keeps the dialog terse and direct, lets a rifle crack, a sand track, a warwhoop augment the action. Superb photographic sequences: the parleys with the bandit chief, one parched private running amok, the shots of shifting, sliding sand...