Word: frantic
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...While it’s amusing when their dialogue is interspersed with frantic kissing during a meeting in a park, it’s just plain odd in other scenes. For instance, at one point, Marwood is in tears as Fainall chokes her while they attempt to work out a plan to foil the hopes of Mirabell and Millamant and gain their fortunes...
...which featured a tough law-and-order stance, talk of national identity, Christian roots and new curbs on immigration and welfare. It worked: no right-wing presidential candidate has fared as well in the first round since 1974. The presidency isn't won yet, however. Though Sarkozy enters the frantic push toward the runoff as the favorite, he must now make a turn to the center, which may prove to be treacherous territory. Bayrou's surprisingly strong showing means he has replaced Le Pen as the nexus of French discontents, but in defeat Bayrou has given his voters no explicit...
...case of Menu Foods, the Canadian pet-food company whose products are at the center of a nationwide recall, Dezenhall says the company should be vigilant about informing the public about the source of the contaminated pet food. With frantic, emotional pet owners desperate for information, that means not waiting for the results of the government's investigation. In the absence of a definitive answer, veterinary and pet-owner blogs have been filled with theories, some of them bizarre, about the source of Menu Foods' tainted products...
...about a boyfriend, then about work. "The Sewing Machine" (from The Perils of Pauline): "I bobbin the bobbin and pedal the pedal / And wheel the wheel all day/ So by night I feel so weary / That I never get out to play." And in another Pauline song, the sublimely frantic "Rumble Rumble Rumble," Betty practically falls off the piano top she's perched on, so agitated is she singing about how she can't get to sleep because the guy upstairs plays boogie-woogie all night: "He goes a-rumble, rumble, rumble on the bottom,/ He goes a-tinkle, tinkle...
...Crimson coach Chris Ridolfi said. “Vassar plays kind of a different style of offense than we’re used to seeing, and we had trouble taking care of that in the first game. They played the game a little faster and more frantic than we’re used to.”The Brewers dominated the first game from the start, shooting ahead to a six-point lead before Harvard managed to score a single point. After falling so far behind, the Crimson failed to close the gap, and Vassar remained ahead by five points...