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Word: amuck (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sounds are grotesque. Böll writes with simple beauty, but often he treats despair with that detailed evenness that the dull st of The New Yorker writers apply to domestic crises in suburban Connecticut. And sometimes Author Böll's sense of the macabre runs amuck. As Kate tells Fred that she is pregnant again, the druggists outside the hotel are applauding a flight of small planes that drop contraceptive ads followed by red rubber toy storks with broken necks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Germans Against the Wall | 10/4/1954 | See Source »

...emptiness of Soviet Asia. Within this huge expanse (one-sixth of the world's inhabited land surface), there is vast diversity, and some of the natural wonders of the world. There are millions of acres of tundra, stretching across the north in frozen silence; mountains that run amuck from the Himalayas and belch volcanic ash into Bering Strait. There are 100,000 rivers, one-third of the world's forests, the greatest inland sea-the Caspian, five times the size of Lake Superior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: The Muzhik & the Commissar | 11/30/1953 | See Source »

Were trusted not to run amuck...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SELECTION SONG | 5/13/1953 | See Source »

...again, some war and reconstruction embittered young hotblood oversteps himself. In Horizons West, for instance, Robert Ryan runs verily amuck when a money-grubbing, lecherous, mortgage-foreclosing carpetbagger slaps his face. He shoots the wretch, takes over his profitable rackets, and with great native ability builds them to new oppressive high. Naturally, he gets his come-uppance, but not at Union hands. His wizened Pappy and loving step-brother help an irate citizen gun him down in the street. But note: he sent another Yankee to the Happy Bucket Shop before...

Author: By Robert J. Schoenberg, | Title: Marching Through Los Angeles | 2/11/1953 | See Source »

...Reds are also working hard against Naguib. Joining hands with other malcontents, they staged a series of wild strikes, intended to rock the new regime before it could settle down. Six thousand cotton-mill workers ran amuck, smashing their looms, burning factories, stoning the police. "Treason," said Naguib. "The punishment is death." Armored cars beat back the mob; nine were killed. A military tribunal tried the ringleaders for treason...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: A Good Man | 9/8/1952 | See Source »

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