Word: amuck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...November to two-thirds of October, neutrals last month lost four times what they lost in September. This, he said, "is indeed a strange kind of warfare for the German Navy to engage in. When driven off the shipping of their declared enemy, they console themselves by running amuck among the shipping of neutral nations. This fact should encourage neutrals to charter their ships to Great Britain for the duration of the war, when they can be sure of making larger profits than they ever made in peace, and have complete guarantee against loss." He said Britain's total...
Because he was annoyed by the noise of WPA pneumatic drills near his Kansas City house, Dr. Logan Clendening ran amuck, smashed with an ax the valve and feed pipe of the air compressor supplying the drills, was jailed (TIME, Feb. 20). Last week he pleaded guilty to charges of destroying property and disturbing the peace, was fined...
...fast (Thanksgiving Eve in the U. S.) most of the soldiers were licking their chops in anticipation of the gorging they would do for the feast of Bairam during the next three days. Among their number, however, was one young sepoy who, half-crazed through abstention, ran amuck during the night. He forced his way into the tent of the battalion's major, with his rifle shot the major dead in his sleep. Aroused, five other officers-three British and two Indian-rushed to the scene. Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang,-the sepoy killed all five. The rest...
...group follows some such lines as these, and keeps itself in close connection with the faculty, there is ample opportunity for unbiased and at the same time interesting activity. It remains to be seen whether the Council of Economics Concentrators will run amuck with foaming mouth, or see its genuine opportunities and make the most of them...
...wide world and dizzy speed at easy command. So the new comedy goes tearing around at a breakneck pace, and drives one into gulps of amazed laughter. "Love on the Run" is just such a picture, and keeps the promise contained in its title. But not content to run amuck with foaming month, it has anitched one of the major weapons of the great class of World War pictures, the international apy. And no with malingnant foreigners periodically sticking their heads into the whirlwind pranks of crazy Americans, "Love on the Run" is calculated to be, and probably...