Word: amuck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...N.R.C. (the scientists) demands that Adam be submitted to further tests to find out why the loss of Mississippi turned out so badly. While Colonel Phelps-Smythe, who is bucking for a star, takes over security arrangements, the bureaucrats take up the bit and proceed to run organizationally amuck, turning the hope of humanity into the greatest show since N.R.A. went out. Adam is torn between policy meetings screen tests (Hollywood foresees a race of gawky, Adam-like red-heads) and experimental sessions with an adventuress, The Frame, who would give future generations that Vassar look. The villainess...
Indirect Object. In Ferriday, La., John Kirtis ran amuck, beat a woman over the head with a loaded revolver until it went off, shot him dead...
Died. 2nd Lieut. Beaufort George Swancutt, 31, handsome lady-killer of La Crosse, Wis., under death sentence by an Army court-martial for running amuck in Camp Anza (Calif.) Officers' Club and killing his fiancée and three others (TIME, March 20); by his own hand (hanged with a bed sheet); in San Francisco...
...Rome surpassed in wanton ferocity that of the German and Spanish mercenaries of Emperor Charles V in 1527. They came down from Lombardy, where they had mutinied for 150,000 ducats in back pay. In a misty May dawn, the Germans and Spaniards breached Rome's walls, ran amuck. They ransacked, burned, profaned, tortured, raped, murdered. The Pope became the Emperor's captive.* Wrote Eyewitness Cardinal Salviati: "Every possible infamy was committed. . . . They were Christians, yet they did that which I never heard of being done by Turks...
...flabby pro football players from upstairs irons their clothes and sleeps in the kitchen. Six amorous Portuguese naval cadets finally cap the climax with a conga party that assumes riot proportions and nets Eileen a night in Jail. As this point, with Ruth's writing attempts apparently gone amuck and Eileen's acting aspirations overshadowed by an amusing assortment of male admirers, father and grandma arrive from Columbus to see how everything is going. The scene is black until magazine editor Brian Aherne comes through with a contract of Ruth and stage prospects for Eileen...