Word: amok
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...pantry of Kathryn I. Seyfried ’06 will be full of cereal and other crunchy goods. Wearing fleece pajama pants, she’ll absentmindedly munch on Cheerios as she grades chemistry problem sets at the kitchen table, while children run amok and snag a couple of O’s with each pass...
...News, Feb. 15). I think that rowing is an amazing sport, and the more people who get to try it the better. However, there are great safety concerns, and perhaps more time should be spent dealing with these before the program is once again allowed to run amok...
...Dhirubhai and the chairman of Reliance Industries, the group's flagship petrochemicals and oil venture, had admitted to "ownership issues" at the company, which he and younger brother Anil, the vice chairman, had been running since their father's death in July 2002. For four days speculation ran amok in the Indian press that the brothers had started sparring over control of Reliance. On Nov. 22, Mukesh issued a statement saying that his words had been "torn out of context" and claimed that all "ownership issues" at Reliance had been settled by Dhirubhai before his death. The next...
...among us, but at least they are honest. Fair, balanced and unafraid, these brave souls who actually label themselves as Rightists in this liberal citadel are likely self-proclaimed “Hipublicans” who allegedly use their acerbic and edgy wit to poke fun whenever liberalism runs amok. Granted, there are some posers in this camp as well, but most of them are of the ironic liberal variety that thinks it’s funny to label themselves very conservative when in fact they are the opposite. The rest are flag-waving, Bible-thumping, altar...
...Less a kid's fantasy than a nightmare - with horrible heights, long chases, the loss of a mother's love - the movie ends in anarchy: Dr. T.'s musical plan is foiled, the kids run amok and a Rube Goldberg-style A bomb blows the whole place up. (By now Bart Collins has outdone Bart Simpson on the destructo scale.) Not since Jean Vigo's "Zero de Conduite" have filmmakers so fervently called for a revolt of the underage. Even the laconic Zabladowski falls under Bart's revolutionary spell. "People should always believe in kids," he says sagely. "They should...