Word: frantic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...could not halt a losing streak that dropped the Red Sox into second place late last week. While Boston has been losing, New York and Baltimore have been winning. The surprising Yankees, who have not won a pennant in ten years, sport no Mantles or DiMaggios this year. Some frantic trading eventually paid off, though, and the erratic Bombers began to wring winning performances out of an assortment of new arrivals and old journeymen. Outfielders Elliott Maddox and Lou Piniella have been hitting over .300. Rudy May, a recent acquisition, has helped an ailing pitching staff, backing up young...
When we last left Margo Flax, middle-aged divorcee, her frantic love for a younger man had caused her to undergo a facelift. That, to be sure, was nothing spectacular for the script of All My Children, one of television's soapiest midday dramas. Yet when kindly Dr. Julien removed the bandages from Margo's uplifted face before 10 million viewers this week, the postoperative black eyes and discolored skin thus exposed were in very living color. It turns out that Eileen Letchworth, fiftyish, the actress who has been Margo Flax for the past two years...
...community-organized rodeo have not changed. Bareback bronc and brahma bull riding, the meanest rodeo events, still delight the fans and break the bones of contestants. Shot into the arena on the back of an insanely bucking bull or bronc, the rider must stay aboard for eight frantic seconds, holding on by his spurs and a rope cinch that he is allowed to grasp with only one hand. If the cowboy survives the frenzied ride, two judges score his effort for degree of difficulty and quality, usually awarding the best performance 75 or 80 out of a possible 100 points...
This is not Michigan, where 60,000 frantic football fans come to watch their gridiron heroes. Nor is it the University of Maryland, whose student body rocks the SRO house as it watches Lefty Driesell and his hardcourt heroes work their magic on the hated opposition. And it is hardly a St. Lawrence, where students line up hours before a hockey game in order to get in, and literally raise the roof once inside...
...stands out from the rest in its simultaneous inducement of dreams and deflation of hopes. From the week preceding registration until the day study cards are due, the third floor of the Coop, where course books are neatly stacked on endless rows of shelves, is mobbed with armies of frantic students shoving, chattering, and groaning as they crane their necks and screw their eyes for a glimpse of the books required for various courses...