Word: berserk
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When he and his brother Mertyl went off to board with an aunt and go to school, Vridar was constantly being forced into fights. Always frightened, when it came to the point he went berserk with despair, usually rushed his startled opponent off his feet. Then, just when life was getting a little easier, girls came into the picture. Painfully shy and equally susceptible, Vridar fell prey to another set of bullies. The story leaves him still in his teens, in the comic-tragic age, haunted by the chimeras of Sin and Nobility. Between the two Vridar...
...poaching. Thus the League Council continued, despite the Lytton report, to speak of the national Chinese government as if such a government did exist, without regard to the fact that Chiang Kiashek was not on substantially better terms with Canton and the Communist South than he was with the berserk Manchurian freebooters of the North. Under these conditions, the withdrawal of Japanese troops at the time of the League order would have meant the establishment of a bloody war lord government in the disputed provinces...
Chicago, rather paradoxically, was the birthplace of Walter Fisher's aristocratic civic reform, the home of the berserk Municipal Voters' League, and the zealots of "efficient government." But she will probably choose to return, after a sudden and dizzy eminence of virtue, to her comfortable post-war role of the protesting victim. For sixty years Chicago has been a great, a wealthy, and a powerful city. And for almost sixty years her industrious citizenry has submitted to the control of an incredibly arrogant, mendacious, and corrupt chain of municipal dynasties. Her example, although not solitary, serves to bring the issues...
...Professor Holcombe reiterates the view which he has expressed before on the crisis in the Far East. He contends that if war is to be prevented and the future good of the World preserved we must join with the other nations in some definite action against this country gone berserk. The method which he advises is an economic boycott of Japan. If this fails, he does not shrink from advocating actual force...
This is rather one-sided and hardly fair to Porter Smith. If it may be said that he went berserk, it must, in justification, be added that a mob of six or eight white men went berserk fighting him, first...