Word: amok
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This led to penetrating give-and-take between Dukakis and Simon on whether Republicans will come around to supporting the Arias peace plan--"I think so," Simon said. "It makes so much sense."--Gephardt and the Duke on how we can prevent the NSC from running amok in the future--"Well, it begins with the fellow in the Oval Office," the Massachusetts governor said. "I've been a chief executive for nine years and..."--and DuPont and Haig on what to do when the Soviets cheat on treaties--"That's a good question, Pete...
...suddenly, we are expected to abandon our notions of civilized decorum and run amok like some base creature of the wild. Abandoning basic norms of human behavior is no problem for most, but even if this initial obstacle can be overcome, the road to a successful, "call waiting" experience remains fraught with danger...
...system, when reduced to hiding in bushes, peeking in windows and personal harassment, has clearly run amok," he said. "Those who cover politics have some duty of self-restraint. Here the boundaries of journalistic ethics have clearly been crossed...
...people who gave us the orders aretrying to paint us as running amok," said Tambs, aprofessor of history at Arizona State University."It's insane...
Credo: there are real problems in Latin America--war, hunger, anarchy and Catholicism. The novel is an expansive, flexible literary form. It can mimic the diffuse, confusing format of a world run amok...