Word: frantically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second week the pace was more than fast; it was almost frantic. Usually the new President was up by 8 o'clock. Usually there were breakfast conferences, followed by long sessions with assorted aides and task forces. There was the first meeting with the National Security
...tradition, the Millrose Games annually begin the frantic swirl of big-time indoor track at Madison Square Garden. And by tradition, the event has been stag night for the competitors. But last week Millrose officials saw fit to schedule a special 60-yd. dash for the ladies. The reason: to give the New York track crowd its first look at Tennessee State's willowy Wilma ("Skeeter") Rudolph. 20. triple gold medal winner and the outstanding athlete at last summer's Olympic Games in Rome...
...seven frantic minutes last night, Harvard ralled from a 2-0 deficit to slap an incredible 3-2 win on an aroused Boston University hockey team...
...rather fight than eat or mate. Handlers first strapped razor-sharp spurs to the feet of their birds, then placed them on their marks on the clay-floored ring. At the referee's cry of "Pit!", the cocks were released to clash feet-first in mid-air in frantic flurries of squawks and feathers...
Simple Rules. But however frantic the betting became-or however bloody the fighting-the audience never failed to behave in the restrained manner befitting such a tradition-hallowed affair. The small children roaming the ringside heard no profanity, and no liquor was served inside the arena. As a sign over the door reminded the patrons of the best cockfighting in the U.S.: "Rules of this club are the simple rules that govern ladies and gentlemen everywhere...