Word: frantic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...final moment, U.S. warplanes pummeled the area around Phnom-Penh, the Cambodian capital. It was the last day of more than six months of frantic U.S. air support of the Lon Nol regime, during which the U.S. flew 32,000 sorties (including 8,000 by B-52s) and dumped more than 245,000 tons of bombs on Cambodia. This deluge totaled 50% more than all the conventional bombs the U.S. rained upon Japan in World War II. Most of it, of course, was aimed at guerrillas hiding in heavy jungle. As a result, the bombing obviously did not inflict...
...fuss embraced by barren hearts, and it was a lost child who would kick up such rubbish to gain entrance into rooms so empty." Written with a sympathetic intelligence, at times fiercely lyrical, Buried Alive is an honest book about Joplin the idol and Joplin the victim in the frantic, manic disarray of rock in the '60s. A meticulous researcher, Friedman has taken great pains to document the Joplin chronicle as exhaustively as one might document the biography of a statesman-with the result that the large cast of minor characters may be recognizable only to groupies. Still, this...
...Side last winter, when Dan Voll, a former Yale undergraduate just 13 days short of his 21st birthday, was suddenly seized and muscled into a waiting car (TIME, March 12). The abductors were Voll's father Eugene, his mother Marie, and Ted Patrick. Summoned by Voll's frantic cries for help, police stopped the car before it had gone two blocks and freed the young man, who suffered a dislocated finger in the struggle...
...Frantic Pace. This unexpected turn threw a kink into White's narrative that no amount of last-minute revision could disguise. White had originally allocated only ten pages to Watergate (in a book of nearly 400), prudently holding four more in reserve for postelection developments. The string of Watergate explosions in March and April rendered that plan thoroughly inoperative and forced White into a frantic race against future disclosures and the clock...
...frantic competition for small deposits, banks and S and Ls are introducing higher-yielding varieties of $1,000, four-year CDs almost daily and touting them in blaring bold-headlined newspaper ads and breathless radio commercials. Last week these CDs generally paid 7½% annual interest, but many banks raised the effective return to 7.79% by compounding interest daily. Manhattan's Union Dime Savings Bank advertised $1,000 CDs at 8¼%; daily compounding raises the effective rate to a towering...