Word: berserk
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...glands may be involved in this condition: the tiny islands of Langerhans in the pancreas, which secrete insulin, a hormone essential for carbohydrate digestion; the adrenals, thyroid and anterior pituitary, which seem to act antagonistically to the islets. Exactly how they work, or what causes them to go berserk, no one knows...
Chief danger of Communism was the damage its agents could do-and have undoubtedly done-in fanning flames, inciting to riot, disrupting negotiations. The U.S. got a sample of the possibilities open to saboteurs when a civilian inspector in the Bendix Aviation Corp. plant in New Jersey went berserk, destroyed thousands of dollars worth of intricate instruments before he was subdued and hauled off to a psychopathic ward...
...physical city tamed too. Gothic extravagance yielded to gracious Georgian façades; Disraeli snorted over London's architectural insipidity. The criminals, the riffraff and the poor were vital; the rest of the nation was one sallow hunk of middle-class mutton. Where berserk bulls had once been a traffic problem, "scorchers" on bicycles were called a public menace. The last gold sovereigns of England sang on the counters of World War I. Most revealing of all was the history of city lighting: after centuries of blackness, a slow, fuliginous dawn of lanterns and dim cressets, then mirrored lamps...
...close together for too long a time. Included in the novel's 496-page sweep are three brilliant novelle: Ensign Woodbridge's encounter with the hypocritical missionaries, the story of the Irish monk and the satanic trader, Parker, and Seaman O'Connell on a berserk rampage. Included also is many a burst of virtuoso prose, in which Author Goodrich compares the ship to a walled town, to the Tower of Constance, to the Alamo, to anything that represents man's constant war against an unfriendly world...
...period was two minutes old, B. U. had tied the count, and then with Stacy Hulse in the penalty box, had netted another one. A third goal inside of the first five minutes gave the Terriers an easy two goal lead, as the Crimson defense and offense went simultaneously berserk. For ten minutes the teams battled wildly but very ineffectually, and then in the closing minutes of the game the Terriers scored twice more for good measure...