Word: amok
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...uprising in China, members of the panel hypothesized that the troops killing Beijing residents were so violent in part because frustration had built up in some army divisions, leading them to run amok in Tiananmen Square...
Friends of Morris at Harvard have said that the young computer wizard, fatigued from lack of sleep, made an error in his program that caused the virus to run amok, crippling literally thousands of mainframe computer systems...
...editors of The Dartmouth Review were getting testy. The readers were bored, Pat Robertson was running amok in the primaries, and things were looking generally sour for Dartmouth's conservative vanguard. Something had to be done...
...following roughly the same strategy: identify your supporters, woo the uncommitted, and make certain to get out your hard-core vote on Feb. 8. Caucus night for the Republicans is generally a well-ordered affair. But Democrats, characteristically, must labor under the heavy burdens of participatory democracy run amok. Caucuses frequently last beyond midnight, as participants debate policy resolutions and try to comply with the party's arcane threshold requirements, which demand that a candidate win 15% support to garner any delegates...
...world war, or even--surprise--a baby vomiting in Buffalo, there are several salient features of the junket experience that may redeem it for some people. For example, the booze, which is free, or the deluxe hotel room, which similarly is gratis. Or the chance to run amok in a strange city where no one knows you--and not be one penny poorer for the opportunity...