Word: amok
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...their bones. They are victims of a group of more than 40 disorders that arise when the immune system launches a sustained attack against the body’s own tissues. Ailments as diverse as psoriasis, multiple sclerosis and Type I diabetes are all caused by an immune system run amok. No one knows what initiates any of these chronic diseases or how they might be cured, but researchers have nonetheless made significant headway in developing new drugs to treat them-drugs that represent the first substantial advancement in the field in 50 years...
...Egyptian adventure deteriorated. The people of Cairo rose in general insurrection. Napoleon bombarded al-Azhar, the city's largest mosque, then sacked it and allowed his troops to run amok, killing men, women and children in the streets. The bloom was off the liberation. Napoleon sought glory northward, marching toward Syria. He took Jaffa. Four thousand prisoners, who had been promised their lives, were marched before Napoleon's tent; he asked peevishly, "What am I supposed to do with them?" They were herded to the beach and slaughtered in the surf...
...Since September, when the LAPD appointed a board of inquiry to investigate misdeeds in its anti-gang Rampart CRASH unit, a portrait has emerged of police power run amok on a horrifying scale. The investigation centers on the testimony of turncoat cop Rafael Perez, a Rampart CRASH officer who squealed after he was caught stealing cocaine from an evidence room. A cover story in Thursday's L.A. Times, for which the paper received exclusive access to Internal Affairs and D.A. documents of Perez's testimony, lists such police infractions as beating and framing innocent people, using deadly force against unarmed...