Word: berserker
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During the last year, as Godfrey told it, Julius began to change into an "obstreperous" boy. He eyed outside offers, lost interest in the ballet and tap-dancing exercises for the Godfrey cast. "Julius went completely berserk, haywire." His signing with an agent was "the straw that broke the camel's back...
...Yale's Saybrook College, wounded two Aurora policemen, one of whom was his own uncle, before being seized and disarmed. Police conjectured that recent reported family difficulties deranged Johnson and he intended to threaten his father's life. When surprised on the street-by police officers, he suddenly went berserk, it is believed, and opened fire without warning...
...February 1945, as the U.S. Sixth and Eighth Armies closed in on Manila from north, east and south, the Japanese garrison went berserk, killing 40,000 Filipinos in a 20-day orgy. Among those machine-gunned to death in the streets: the wife and three of the children of the man who is now President of the Philippine Republic, Elpidio Quirino. After the war, the Philippine government condemned 79 Japanese to death and 48 more to long prison terms, for these and hundreds of other atrocities. Charged with "command responsibility" for the rape of Manila, Lieut. General Shizuo Yokoyama...
...colony demanding Home Rule. There were riots over cocoa prices, and one February day in 1948, a band of Gold Coast veterans of World War II marched on the British governor's palace. In the street fighting that followed, police shot two Africans, wounded many more; a berserk mob looted every store in sight, and 29 people were killed...
Utrillo: "I was able to capture all the violence and the pathos of his life. We don't know many men who started getting drunk when they were only eight months old.* Today, Utrillo is either asleep, drunk or berserk. If it weren't for Lucie Valore [TIME, Aug. 25], he'd be dead. He told me: 'I hate my house. It's full of bourgeois furniture and servants. One day I'm going to run away and go back to Montmartre where I belong.' It was the saddest thing...