Word: amuck
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Some conscientious supporters of reform fear that a popularly elected convention would run amuck over the Declaration of Rights and perhaps abolish the protection against self-incrimination. Backers of a convention answer that this suspicion of the electorate is inconsistent with democratic government; but they add that even if the convention ran wild, people would have a year to cool off and refuse to ratify bad suggestions in the referendum. As a further protection, the bill to put the convention to a referendum bars the body from discussing the Declaration of Rights, but the courts have not yet said that...
...news spread through Masan, 10,000 infuriated citizens, many of them high school students, flocked to the building where Kim's corpse lay and demanded the body "so we can take it to Seoul and show it to the National Assembly." When the authorities refused, the crowd ran amuck. Raging through the streets, shouting demands for the resignation of President Syngman Rhee, the rioters sacked Masan's city hall, the local offices of Rhee's Liberal Party, the home of Masan's mayor and a brewery that a local pol allegedly received as a bribe...
...Thrashing like a windmill run amuck, Indiana University Sophomore Mike Troy, 19, tied his own 53:1 American record for the 110-yd. butterfly, broke his American record for the 22O-yd. butterfly by 4.4 sec. with a time...