Word: berserker
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...typical case was a tank sergeant who went berserk after the body of his commander, decapitated by a shell, fell in his lap. The sergeant shrieked, jumped out of the tank, ran wildly in circles with shells falling around him. His comrades got him back into the tank and to a first-aid station. After three days of treatment, the sergeant was able to rejoin his unit...
Flames shot into the air. Bullets began zinging around the heads of the spectators on the field-"as if some berserk machine gunner were trying to strafe the world," one spectator said later. A creeping curtain of flame covered the sagebrush desert for half a mile around the wreckage. Crash cars and ambulances stood by helplessly...
Boksok-crazy; berserk...
...blue and the white, frantic flourish on the palette . . . and then several large, fierce strokes and slashes of blue on the absolutely cowering canvas. Anyone could see that it could not hit back. . . . The sickly inhibitions rolled away. I seized the largest brush and fell upon my victim with Berserk fury. I have never felt any awe of a canvas since...
...debt of gratitude dating from Dec. 7. For Hawila captured and disarmed a Jap pilot who landed on the island. And when the Jap later escaped and ran amuck trying to kill the islanders, Hawila sailed in a whale boat to get help, while old Kanahele battled the berserk enemy...