Word: amok
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...metal keys, two-stringed violins. Fluid-fingered dancers will hold an audience enchanted all the night long; wayang puppet shows, telling the heroic legends of the past, run from sunset to dawn. Yet together with the industriousness and mannered behavior of the Indonesian is the wild agony of the amok, when a man for no clear reason will throw off all restraint and race through his village wielding his razor-sharp parang against everything in his path...
...Britain had intervened to foil a Russian plot to take over the Middle East. Said President of the Board of Trade Peter Thorneycroft: "We intervened to stop the war, and we have perhaps stopped it in the nick of time before the Egyptian air force, organized by Russia, ran amok in the Middle East." Eden's Foreign Office had apparently not had the political word. The Foreign Office told inquiring reporters that stories of massive Russian moves came from Russian propaganda, which was systematically exaggerating what Russia has done or will do for its Arab friends...
...Though far from being strangers to the problem of juvenile delinquency, citizens of New York City last week had reason to lose patience. One day, when rain ruined a school outing, hundreds of pupils swarmed onto subway trains and proceeded to run amok. They terrorized passengers, smashed 237 light bulbs, pulled emergency cords, ripped up seats, pummeled a guard, roughed up a station elevator operator. Snapped Magistrate Charles F. Murphy as he set an exceptional $10.000 bail on one of the ringleaders: "City officials must stop coddling offenders...
...West Pakistan only a handful of Hindus have remained since partition, but in East Pakistan 28.5% of the inhabitants are Hindus. Since 1950, when fanatical Moslem mobs ran amok killing Hindus and destroying their property, the Hindu minority in East Pakistan has lived in fear. After the 1950 riots, India and Pakistan agreed to protect each other's minority groups and to permit unlimited free travel between East Bengal (East Pakistan) and West Bengal (India). Under cover of this agreement, trade (and smuggling) between the two countries flourished to such an extent that some Hindus unwisely began to speak...
...into the house. 'Mother! Halloa! I have news!' I cried. Mother looked up from the Racing Form. 'Yeah?' she said. 'I'm in love,' I declared. 'With a girl?' I nodded. "Thank God,' said Mother." A three-star side-splitter opens another chapter: "I was so exhausted after my amok that I slept around the clock. Although sleeping in this circular position was uncomfortable. I managed to put in almost eight hours...