Word: frantic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Super Bowl and Kansas City's powerful defensive front four reminded National Press Club Speaker Robert Finch of what he termed his own "Frantic Four: pollution, the population explosion, the Pill and pesticides." The Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare continued: "The best thing we've found so far for the population explosion is a 24-hour schedule for athletic events on TV-all year round...
...frantic hawker stands in front of each shop, jerking passersby inside with either a friendly tug or a non-stop, 78 r. p. m. sales-pitch. The walls, laden with shining guitars, pinata dolls, and obscenely fluorescent paintings of nudes and bull-fights, flash down aggressively at the customer. Mexicans sit behind the counters, talking and laughing, while middle-aged, paunchy Americans solemnly try on yard-wide sombreroes in front of the mirrors...
...your fascinating "Top of the Decade" issue [Dec. 26], you omitted an extremely important part of modern living -the frantic changes in America's vocabulary. The following are three areas of change and some samples: 1) new words: cybernetics, zap, finalize, multimedia; 2) old words rediscovered and popularized: ambience, relevant, charisma, geriatric, black, guru, spectrum, style of life (plus four-letter words formerly heard only in an Army barrack or pool hall); 3) common words with radically changed meanings: trip, pig, square, soul...
Vamp: "It won't be my good unless you really want to" A few minutes later, while the duo make frantic love on the floor...