Word: amuck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...replace dictators not only do dramatics subside but therewith the chances of detection in case of error. It is true that the President still works the pedals, but obviously he cannot devote the time to the machine that the old autocrat could, and Richberg is not likely to run amuck as did Johnson. Debate and recommendations will ensue, and fertile ground for buck-passing cleared. In short, the indications are that NRA under any new combination of initials is on the skids, however inadequately they may appear to be greased at present...
Rabid imperialist, Rhodes once sneered at British policy as "philanthropy-plus 5%." Sometimes called a coward, Rhodes quitted himself like a brave man when the Matabele ran amuck and were proving costly to subdue. Unarmed, with a few companions, Rhodes went among the Matabele warriors, persuaded the chiefs to air their grievances and lay down their arms. Only big mistake of Rhodes's career, which cost him the loyalty of many a South African, was the Jameson Raid into the Transvaal, which it was hoped would finish President ("Oom Paul") Kruger and his Boers, bring the Transvaal into Rhodes...
...Nazis Amuck. A Dictator, once he feels secure in the saddle, always tries to curb and discipline his followers who have invariably run more or less amuck. The U. S. Embassy reported to the German Government last week eight cases of assault by Nazis upon U. S. citizens (seven of them Jews) in the Reich, received no apology, only "official regrets." Throughout the Reich German Jews were beaten in numbers (censored) which apparently ran into hundreds...
...night before Dictator Hitler's radio speech, ruddy-cheeked young Nazis ran amuck through virtually all the night clubs of Berlin, smashed china & glassware on general principles to the accompaniment of piercing screams of richly-dressed women...
Democrats: "The vagaries of the Democratic House offer characteristic and appalling proof of the existing incapacity of that party for leadership in a national crisis. Individualism running amuck has displaced party discipline. . . . Goaded to desperation by their confessed failure, the party leaders have resorted to "pork barrel" legislation...