Word: amuck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...adjoining French Morocco last week, the 40th anniversary of the Treaty of Fez (by which the territory passed into French control) rolled around. In Tangier, an international port which Moors view as part of Morocco, rioters ran amuck in the streets, smashed shop fronts, looted, beat up Europeans. At least a score were injured, and several killed...
Labonne's liberalism, approved in Paris, was not liked by the Morocco-born French colonials. In April 1947, Senegalese soldiers from French West Africa, provoked no one knows exactly how, ran amuck in the Medina. (Arab quarter) of Casablanca, killed 80 Arabs. The Sultan was shocked, announced that the time had come for Morocco to "acquire its full rights." The words hit Paris like a bomb. "Send 20 divisions or General Juin," a deputy shouted. Socialist Premier Ramadier, who did not have 20 divisions, sent General Juin to replace Labonne...
...George, 43, has a predilection for doing what his parishioners fondly call "riding the high horse." A few months after his arrival in San Bernardino in 1945, his round denunciations of school-board bickering pushed through the first school-board reform in years. Later, when a Navy veteran ran amuck and raped a minor, George defended him in court as his pastor, though no local attorney would take the case for less than $5,000, and won him probation. When the city council seemed about to kill a federal housing scheme in deference to real-estate interests, Pastor George...
...improve with age) is an upper-class Babbitt with more dignity and deeper insights ("he sometimes enjoyed Beethoven"). Elmer Gantry is a Babbitt with a clerical collar and the courage of his disbelief; "Buzz" Windrip (the American dictator in It Can't Happen Here) is Babbitt running amuck with a submachine...
...November, with his club floundering badly it became necessary for dapper little Conny Smythe to throw his weight (165 Ibs.) around. Like Little Lord Fauntleroy gone amuck, he lit into his blubbery, 197-lb. goalie, Turk Broda, and ordered him to melt down to 190, or else. He benched Broda, threatened to bench four others...