Word: amuck
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...adjustment that old-timers have to make as the newcomers invade what was once their hallowed space. "The most annoying thing in a pool room is a jukebox," says Merhl Smith, 79, a three-times-a-weeker at Chris's. "You put up with [the kids running amuck] for a while, and then you tell them to please stay out of the way." Still, by all appearances, the seedy good old days won't be forgotten anytime soon. In Marcie Davis' physical-education pool class in Fair Oaks, Calif., the reading assignment on Minnesota Fats is the hands-down favorite...
Around the globe--in South America, Africa, Russia and other parts of Asia--the benefits of a world-market economy, globalization, were also coming under pressure. This unease rocked Seattle when, starting on Nov. 29, 1999, antiglobalist protesters ran amuck at a World Trade Organization meeting. Demonstrators indiscriminately trashed icons of capitalism, from McDonald's to the Gap, and the message got across: globalism doesn't float all boats...
...kids were crying, some food was burned, an object flew and they didn’t know what they were doing,” Conley said. “Things went amuck at a moment of early evening stress...
...tall, genial charmer who sported the goatee and floppy bow tie of a small-town art teacher, had plenty of career left. He reunited with Geisel and directed two Dr. Seuss half-hours, How the Grinch Stole Christmas! and Horton Hears a Who! He wrote two delightful memoirs, Chuck Amuck and Chuck Reducks. And for a 1985 Museum of Modern Art tribute to Warner Bros. animation, he drew new Bugses and Daffys on the Manhattan museum's walls--a tacit acknowledgment from the world of high culture that this cartoon man was a significant creator of modern...
...Bros.' Looney Tunes series, including Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny; in Corona del Mar, California. In a career that spanned six decades, Jones made more than 300 animated films, winning two Oscars?one for Best Director in 1965 and an honorary lifetime achievement award in 1996. His autobiography Chuck Amuck was published in 1989. DIED. JOHN THAW, 60, adored by millions of viewers for his portrayal of the curmudgeonly sleuth Inspector Morse on ITV's critically acclaimed eponymous television series; in Luckington, England. Already popular in the U.K. for his work in other TV dramas, the actor garnered international recognition...