Search Details

Word: berserk (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...everybody does, while statistics-keepers and sports scribes go berserk in the stands, and Margarita introduces Harvard '55 to the double four platoon system and substitutions incredibly unlimited...

Author: By Edward J. Coughlin, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 10/5/1951 | See Source »

...Universal-International) seems bent on proving that if a man has a bad enough temper, he can become heavyweight champion of the world. Jeff Chandler, a coal miner whose only real ambitions are to marry Evelyn Keyes and own a radio store, has a nasty habit of going efficiently berserk when anyone mocks him. Egged on by his sweetheart and ne'er-do-well brother (Stephen McNally), Chandler soon bowls over all the local heavyweights and moves on to the big city. Booed by the fans as a dirty fighter and damned by the newspapers as an inept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 17, 1951 | 9/17/1951 | See Source »

...being killed off, and he is not interested in returning to his home and attempting to rebuild it into a better world. "Not after all this," he says. The Lieutenant is fighting simply to give him something to do until he gets killed. When one of his men goes berserk and is accidentally shot, he remarks in one sentence that it is too bad, but he disobeyed orders...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/5/1951 | See Source »

...have played a fairly stiff schedule to date. After being tied, 21 to 11, by a revitalized Holy Cross in its opener, Dartmouth ran up against two very good football teams--Michigan and Pennsylvania. The loss to Michigan (27 to 6) was expected, and Penn's Red Bagnell going berserk at Franklin Field (42 to 26) was just one of those things. But when Dartmouth fell before little Lehigh, 16 to 14, last Saturday, the people began to wonder...

Author: By Richard B. Kline, | Title: Big Green Is Strong Team Without a Victory | 10/28/1950 | See Source »

Some were still clad in pajamas, others beat on pans and sang "Harvardiana" as they invaded the Quad and began to gather before Cabot Hall. Greeted only by water poured from Cabot windows, the berserk Yardlings then marched around the Quad ignoring girls eagerly hanging from Moors Hall windows. Some gathered on the terrace of Barnard but closed doors and windows repulsed their attempts to gain access to the Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '53 Riots in Yard, at Annex | 6/2/1950 | See Source »

Previous | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 | 61 | 62 | 63 | 64 | 65 | 66 | 67 | 68 | 69 | 70 | 71 | 72 | 73 | 74 | 75 | 76 | Next