Word: amuck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Number of bitten moujiks: 19. Number of wolves: 1. Moujiks cured: 16. Moujiks dead: 3. The wolf ran amuck in Smolensk province in March 1886. For two days & two nights it wrandered, at tacking everyone it met. One badly bitten man finally slew the beast with an axe. A Russian physician took the victims to Paris. Pasteur treated 16 of them with a new, intensive treatment (two inoculations daily). The three patients who died were treated by the then ordinary method (one inoculation in several days). The Tsar gave Pasteur a diamond cross of the Order of St. Anne...
...called hogs. . . ." Senator Borah warned against "the day of reckoning" when the Farm Board comes to sell its wheat at a loss. Chairmen Legge replied: "Don't ask me to discuss cyclones. You know how scientists have defined a cyclone as superheated hot air that always runs amuck...
Next morning Clifton and Einar sat in a Copenhagen dock. The two young frokener screamed charges that they had been treated worse than roughly. Einar, when he saw how things were shaping, "ran amuck in the courtroom" according to Copenhagen newspapers, and "overpowered by three policemen, was locked up in a cell, howling for drugs...
Clifton, who had sat quietly through the running-amuck, said in his deferential chauffeur's voice that of course he had not molested either of the frokener, but he confessed in barely audible tones, "I did take out Mr. Booth's car ... for the evening . . . without permission...
...news bureau has sent me a clipping from your paper of April 21 containing a libellous statement about me; saying, "He (I) attracted no little attention by running amuck and shooting his butler." That is an unqualified lie. The man was an English mechanic who I discovered, was a most brutal wife beater. A friend told me of it and I told the friend to have his wife tell Gillard that the next time he beat her, to come over here ["The Merry Mills," Cobham Va.] with her flock of children and I'd put her and them...