Word: amuck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week 19-year-old Knifey Sawicki ran amuck. He turned up in Momence, walked out to Henry Allain's farm. He found the 72-year-old farmer working in a field. Knifey shot him dead, hid the body behind a pump. "He got me sent to St. Charles," said Knifey. "Put the finger on me, the stinking squealer...
...cries of "Warmonger!", "Cassandra!"; sometimes a supercilious "Good old Winnie!" When in 1934 he warned the country that Hitler was arming fast, that England must double its air force at once, Sir Herbert Samuel cried in the House of Commons: "This is rather the language of a Malay running amuck than of a responsible British statesman...