Word: amok
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Generally regarded as a miniature Frankenstein run amok, Argentine policy quickly assumes life-size proportions when it is seen that similar pacts, always manufactured under the pressure of agricultural wealth, are being negotiated with Uruguay, Paraguay, and Chile. These accords will build Argentina into a totalitarian colossus of the south and cannot help but destroy any South American attempt at a healthy state system, Definitely uneasy, but completely befuddled, the United States has alternately adopted a hot and cold policy towards Argentina that has strengthened Peron and bewildered what Latin-American supporters the State Department has left. When Ambassador Braden...
...harlot and should be treated as such. . . . We have completely misunderstood French morals and mores and they ours. We Americans are essentially Puritans (with the connotations that term had in the '20s, that is), so completely self-righteous and yet so evil-minded, as exemplified by our running amok with all sorts of excesses when we are confronted with the essentially honest French mores. There is a great surge of opinion in the Army which is growing daily and is terribly dangerous, a hatred and contempt for our Allies, the French ('they're dirty; they...
...common foe. "Disunity!" screamed the D.C. Communist Party. The Southeast Council of Churches considered charges that Mayor Bilbo is "unpatriotic and un-Christian," solemnly resolved that he be removed. "Vicious," said the National Committee to Abolish the Poll Tax, "un-American." The sober Washington Post editorialized: "Bilbo Runs Amok." The Scripps-Howard Daily News fumed: "This socially benighted man . . . throw...
Died. Stefan Zweig, 60, Austrian-born novelist, biographer, essayist (Amok, Adepts in Self-Portraiture, Marie Antoinette), and his wife, Elizabeth; by poison; in Petropolis, Brazil. Born into a wealthy Jewish family in Vienna, Zweig turned from casual globe-trotting to literature after World War I, wrote prolifically, smoothly, successfully in many forms. His books banned by the Nazis, he fled to Britain in 1938 with the arrival of German troops, became a British subject in 1940, moved to the U.S. the same year, to Brazil the next. He was never outspoken against Naziism, believed artists and writers should be independent...
...wait to defeat Japan? Japan is concentrating attack on territories in Asia and Malaysia. It will let Honolulu alone if we don't intervene. Why not, on the Committee's premises, let Japan run amok and simply withdraw to the eastern Pacific...