Word: amok
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...part of the comprehensive critique of deteriorating social fabric, the brawls demonstrate warrior instincts run amok. But at the same time, bad guys get wasted in the same manner good guys are attacked. Only the mood is supposed to change from these battles of good versus evil. When we finally see Jake for what he really is we have already been conditioned to like his brand of justice. Suddenly we are forced to cast even his justice in a negative light, and that retroactively...
...Four guys walked in with chickens wrapped in blankets," said Malleis. "It looked like they were going to release them and let them run amok...
Dissatisfaction with the prospects for the regatta weekend runs amok among Harvard students, many of whom are not thrilled about Cambridge's temporary population explosion...
...students and the spunkiest bum you ever did see is nothing less than a "Love Story" for out time. A simple coming of age story that takes into account today's troubled economic climate, the ever-widening gap between rich and poor, and an impersonal health-care system run amok...
...wake of the "Saturday Night Massacre," America feared that the Nixon White House had run amok. The House began impeachment proceedings only months later. And The Crimson inveighed at the time against Nixon for "gross violations of law and public trust" as well as "an atmosphere in which his agents would inevitably confuse their master's instructions with...