Word: amuck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Larson whipped into action when he got the first report that prisoners had jumped a guard, wounded him with knife stabs and taken over everything but the administration building. The inmates also grabbed 29 hostages, including twelve members of a visiting Mormon church basketball team. While the prisoners ran amuck, smashing doors and windows, setting fires, Larson rushed a mobile unit right into the grounds, 2½ hours ahead of rival KUTV. A KTVT camera in the administration building picked up shots of prisoners at the end of a corridor behind bars that marked off their territory...
...from their high place with such a thud, that the intellectual seemed to come into his own. But war and prosperity brought the practical men back, and the nation's band of intellectuals seemed to be tuning up for another song of despair. While Joe McCarthy was running amuck, a few did lose their heads, but the McCarthy flurry only tended to obscure one central fact. Far from repeating the attitudes of the '205, the American intellectual stayed at home and even found himself feeling at home. His perennial problem has been to reconcile himself to a society...
...come in fancy undress had decided to stay home because of the bad weather. Those that came, despite their Neanderthal getup, behaved as circumspectly and with the same dogged gaiety as any like group in Sacramento or Scarsdale. But to the zealous guardsmen the party was saturnalia run amuck, and so they reported to their commanding officer, who alerted the military at Malaga. But the military could find no law against private gatherings of cave men and their women, and unaware of the commotion they had caused, the party guests went home...
...Ruark is revolting in his anatomical accounts of Mau Mau barbarity, he runs amuck with his stories of the white man's revenge. When the white "commandos" catch the tribesmen, it is literally an eye for an eye. The hero himself cuts off one man's genitals, hacks out another's tongue, and, pinning a Mau Mau woman to the ground, tries unsuccessfully to get her to talk by dropping a two-foot snake upon her genitals. Finally Peter says: "I have shot only wart hogs and camp meat, so to speak . . . Now I want...
...youth get that way? "It is not youth alone that has succumbed to psychopathy, but nations, populations-indeed, the whole of mankind. The world, in short, has run amuck." And how did the world get that way? Dr. Lindner answers that one of the major factors producing psychopathy is damage to the ego. He sees a loss of individuality and consequent damage to the ego in the 20th century's mass political movements, social and industrial giants, wars and economic upheavals. "From loss of identity has come insecurity, and this has bred the soul-destroying plague we know...