Word: amuck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...news spread through Masan, 10,000 infuriated citizens, many of them high school students, flocked to the building where Kim's corpse lay and demanded the body "so we can take it to Seoul and show it to the National Assembly." When the authorities refused, the crowd ran amuck. Raging through the streets, shouting demands for the resignation of President Syngman Rhee, the rioters sacked Masan's city hall, the local offices of Rhee's Liberal Party, the home of Masan's mayor and a brewery that a local pol allegedly received as a bribe...
...Thrashing like a windmill run amuck, Indiana University Sophomore Mike Troy, 19, tied his own 53:1 American record for the 110-yd. butterfly, broke his American record for the 22O-yd. butterfly by 4.4 sec. with a time...