Word: frantically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Social Director's office was the scene of frantic activity yesterday, as Director Karin Ordahl and her girl Friday, Mary Jo Martin, prepared for the coming week-end. So varied were the offerings, the young ladies found it hard to decide which activity to push the most...
Paul Schmidt makes Hochepaix, a constituent and political enemy of Ventroux, into a rather senile old man who is properly out of place in the frantic Ventroux household. He almost underplays the part, however, and at times is totally obscured by the more energetic Mills...
...blind faith, or a frantic hope to recoup my lost two dollars. Candy Spots in the best three-year old in the nation. His Derby loss was the first of his career, and it might have been attributable to a surprisingly poor ride by Willie Shoemaker. Three times during the race "Shoe" got Candy Spots into a tight squeeze where he had to be checked, and this might have thrown the California colt off enough to cost him the victory...
...baby was named for him in Newfoundland-and so were two penguin chicks hatched in Vancouver's zoo. Technically, he was still four seats shy of an absolute parliamentary majority. But the two splinter parties, with 41 seats between them, had both promised support on most issues. A frantic argument shook the funny-money Social Credit Party over six Quebec M.P.s who bolted party lines, independently promised their votes to Pearson. "I will not tolerate any deals," said Social Credit Leader Robert Thompson, hinting darkly that the Liberals had been spreading some "rather handsome" money around. But after eleven...
...Rudolf Miinemann, one of the nation's biggest and boldest financiers. Yet, for all its wealth, says Sociologist Dahrendorf, the Geldaristokratie "is searching above itself in the social hierarchy for its behavioral standards. But the space above it is empty." This, he suggests, accounts for the joyless, frantic materialism that characterizes much of postwar German life-"the medieval choir stall in the dining room, the conspicuous consumption, the complete lack of taste in art and literature." Complains one sophisticated young princess: "If the Ford Foundation really wants to do something for Germany, it should endow a salon in Bonn...