Word: frantic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strategy was an enormous success. Only 79 drivers were so frantic to get to Las Vegas that they took the chance of making a run for it. Spotted by an airplane and a helicopter hovering overhead, they were soon ticketed by other patrol cars lurking on access roads. Normally, a dozen accidents take place on a big weekend, but only one occurred during the experiment: a drunk mistook a drainage ditch for an exit ramp...
Most of the frantic fun of the evening came from watching the backstage counterpart to these on stage strategy "huddles," which last about a minute during an interlude of piano improves. I knew vaguely what I was in for from the start: while one or more of the actors spin off their impromptu concatenations of wit through either a song or some kind of personal encounter (in Confucianist, "Sun Yat Moon," might lecture on vices to some Process people in the Square), their colleagues are "in the pit" furiously scribbling down rhymed verse, puns, or plotty narratives for the upcoming...
...wish on New Year's Eve after some frantic last-minute negotiations on the way to New York in a jet chartered by Edward Greenwald, a Yankee owner. The deal is unprecedented in a sport where a player contract for even two years is unusual. It assures Hunter a yearly income of $150,000, plus a $1.5 million bonus and a $1 million life insurance policy. Hunter hardly seemed impressed. Immediately after signing, he flew back to Hertford so he could be there on New Year's day -the last day of the deer-hunting season...
Counting Bugs. The double life of the egghead jock can cause plenty of problems. Medich is taking seven years to complete a four-year medical course. When Dryden was both law student and Canadien goalie, he spent one frantic day taking two long exams, then racing to the Montreal Forum to play in a game. Earlie Thomas has a different difficulty: completing his research in the off-season while staying in condition. "I really get into my research," he says. "I spend as much as 14 hours a day in the field, usually on my hands and knees counting bugs...
...Allied breakout from the Cherbourg peninsula, came a Hitlerian command reflex that the Ultra team had learned to expect. Every time things went wrong, Winterbotham notes, "Hitler invariably took remote control, which was a bonus, since most of his signals went on the air." This time Hitler's frantic radio orders gave Eisenhower "the master plan straight from the Fuehrer." With the Nazis trapped at Falaise, Eisenhower sent General Patton plunging east toward Germany. "Without Ultra," Winterbotham argues, "we might have had to meet the Russians on the Rhine instead of the Elbe, and they would have stayed...