Word: amuck
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...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...
...N.R.C. (the scientists) demands that Adam be submitted to further tests to find out why the loss of Mississippi turned out so badly. While Colonel Phelps-Smythe, who is bucking for a star, takes over security arrangements, the bureaucrats take up the bit and proceed to run organizationally amuck, turning the hope of humanity into the greatest show since N.R.A. went out. Adam is torn between policy meetings screen tests (Hollywood foresees a race of gawky, Adam-like red-heads) and experimental sessions with an adventuress, The Frame, who would give future generations that Vassar look. The villainess...
Indirect Object. In Ferriday, La., John Kirtis ran amuck, beat a woman over the head with a loaded revolver until it went off, shot him dead...
Died. 2nd Lieut. Beaufort George Swancutt, 31, handsome lady-killer of La Crosse, Wis., under death sentence by an Army court-martial for running amuck in Camp Anza (Calif.) Officers' Club and killing his fiancée and three others (TIME, March 20); by his own hand (hanged with a bed sheet); in San Francisco...