Word: berserker
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...crying, and I could feel the tears as they fell on my cheeks. I gritted my teeth, almost hating America. Hating America who had left us here." They expected the worst, and it soon came. The Bataan Death March has never been more graphically described in print. In a berserk frenzy, the Japanese bayoneted and shot the fallen, walked alongside the marchers with impaled American heads on their bayonets. On the second afternoon, as the bone-weary, mouth-parched prisoners waited alongside a cold, bubbling stream hoping for their first drink of water, one of the men broke ranks...
...married. But the marriage, at Baby Doll's mincing insistence and with Archie's slobbering acquiescence, has not been consummated because Baby Doll, who is 19. does not yet consider herself, as she daintily phrases it, "ready for marriage." Frustrated in both business and pleasure, Archie goes berserk one night and burns down the syndicate gin. The rest of the picture describes, with a degree of Priapean detail that might well have embarrassed Boccaccio, how the syndicate's manager (Eli Wallach) gets his revenge; he not only seduces Baby Doll, but persuades her to give him evidence...
...machine-gun fire that killed four and wounded 17 Israeli archaeologists was organized and deliberate, the Israelis insisted. Having thoroughly reviewed the evidence. Chairman Christian Fredrik Moe of Norway differed and indicated that he would uphold Jordan's version-the shots were fired by one soldier who went berserk. At Moe's words, the Israeli delegation stamped out in a cold rage...
...reprisal raids for scattered Jordan border incursions. Then, on a Sunday afternoon, a Jordanian machine gun had opened fire on a party of Israeli archaeologists near the border, killing four and wounding 17. The Israeli government had stiffly rejected the official Jordan explanation that a soldier had gone suddenly berserk and fired, and that afternoon the Israeli radio had announced an emergency meeting between Army Chief Moshe Dayan and Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion...
...Poet. The story of Tsumakichi has the universal appeal of plain grit. During one night of horror in her 17th year, Tsumakichi woke to find a human head rolling past her on the teahouse veranda, saw a samurai sword flash twice toward her own body, leaving her armless. Her berserk adoptive father, the manager of the teahouse, had lopped off the heads of five of the six people sleeping under his roof that night. Primarily a dancer, she painfully mastered a new art. Holding a paintbrush between her teeth, she learned to paint ideograms and to draw designs on silk...