Word: frantic
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Meanwhile, frantic efforts were being made to design a new can. Such a job normally takes at least 60 days, but time was now agonizingly short. Bill Schermerhorn, Coke's brand manager, made an urgent telephone call last Monday to Alvin Schechter, creative director of the Schechter Group, a Manhattan design firm. By 10 p.m. Tuesday, Schechter had completed the assignment. The red can features the traditional Coca-Cola script with the word "Classic" in black roman type...
...pulled low to shield eye-blackened cheeks, and Harvard was in the frantic stretch of an Ivy title run, a time when eight months of exhaustion and irritation and monotony condense into eight games of ecstasy. And through it all, the shortstop was making history, one sweet swing and hurried home run trot at a time...
...evidence that this hunger within us will ever die, even as our bodies age. And who would want it to? Nothing beats the rapid-fire thrill of a first person shooter, or the evocations and exhilarations of a sports game, or the alternating states of calm cerebral alertness and frantic applied engagement that characterizes more complicated games like Civilization, Age of Empires, or Starcraft/Warcraft...
...Alkmaar, just north of Amsterdam, it still is. Located near Edam and Gouda, where two of the Netherlands' most famous cheeses are produced, Alkmaar hosted one of the world's largest and longest-running cheese markets, starting in 1622. The commercial trade ceased 15 years ago, but the frantic buying and selling is re-enacted every Friday from April to September for more than 100,000 tourists annually. At 10 a.m. in Waag Square, in front of the historic weigh house that now incorporates the Dutch Cheese Museum ($3.30; (31-72) 511 42 84; www.kaasmuseum.nl), a local rings a bell...
...Well, it’s always a little frantic and the team that’s up always forgets that they’re up,” Stone said. “You think you would play with more confidence, but sometimes you’re squeezing it and the other team is playing with reckless abandon...