Word: frantic
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...beginning ... He and Troise and half a dozen of their friends were sitting around the café on a night like any other night, waiting for Boswell and Dr. Johnson to arrive, when the talk turned to the frantic trendiness of U.S. society. Go to a cocktail party, someone said, and everybody's talking about manipulating the money market, or parachute jumping, or that group therapy where everybody sits nude in a big tub of Wesson Oil. Yeah, said another citizen, there you are in your clean bowling shirt and they all want to go to the roller disco...
When an alarmed Brown squad switched to a full-court press midway through the first half, all chaos broke loose, as the gun-shy referees ignored brawls and a shower of fouls on both teams. Not a point was scored for about eight minutes as the frantic action on the court produced nothing but steals, wild passes, turnovers, repeatedly muffed breakaway attempts, and a broken ankle for sharp-shooter Nancy Boutilier, who may be out for a while...
...entire settlement was again in question. Christopher worked through the night to keep the settlement on track. After frantic phone discussions between bankers, diplomats and the White House, Nobari's objections were overcome...
...Algerie Boeing 727s that bore the hostages from Tehran to Algiers. There they were greeted with grateful bear hugs by U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher and U.S. Ambassador to Algeria Ulric Haynes Jr., the Americans with whom they had worked so closely in the frantic last days of bargaining...
There is another point to remember. Once a man has arrived in the White House, he has no time to acquire further intellectual capital. His sense of the world is already shaped, he must operate from that base, or have total faith in the advisers around him. Frantic cram courses may actually give a President a false sense of mastery. And, as John Kennedy said, it is nearly impossible for a President to make new friends on whom he can totally rely...