Word: frantically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sounds like the biggest ship ever taken over for political or private purposes," Albion commented last night. Meanwhile, Henrique Malta Galvao, the exiled Portuguese author and adventurer now in command of the $1.6 million Santa Maria, successfully eluded three navies during a day of frantic search in the Caribbean...
Orders for shipments started coming in immediately. Apparently the black, glossy cards stood out on racks of standard white, and the photographed models offered welcome relief from two-dimensional cartoons. Particularly frantic requests for more came from college towns, where the undergraduate wit of the captions struck home...
...frantic days began when Kennedy flew to Boston to attend a meeting of Harvard Board of Overseers. Virtually mobbed by students in the Yard, Kennedy quipped: "I am here to go over your grades with Dr. Pusey, and I'll protect your interests." In a few hours he was off to New York, and the morning after, to Washington for conferences. Arriving in Palm Beach with his brother-in-law Peter Lawford and Democratic National Committee Moneybags Matt McCloskey, Kennedy bored into the myriad details that he had to get out of the way by Jan. 20: more conferences...
Suggested by a story in TIME (April 13, 1959), Where the Boys Are describes one of the more frantic phenomena of the affluent society: the annual Spring-Ding or Florida Flip of the book-bashed, sun-starved North American undergraduate. Come Easter vacation, students from all over the Northeast and Midwest pile into anything that holds gas and roar south. In recent years, more than 20,000 of these "migratory shirkers" have settled for the two-week season in Fort Lauderdale, and there the camera finds them-soaking up sun and beer, sleeping twelve to a motel cell...
...cattle ranchers, pin-striped nouveaux riches. On a raised runway in the middle of the barn, a professional auctioneer commanded all attention. At the rate of 72 a day-one every seven minutes during three sessions daily-the auctioneer sold new 1961 autos from Europe and Detroit. In the frantic bidding, a Fiat went for $7,000, a Ford station wagon for $15,000, a Buick for $23,000, a Cadillac for an incredible $50,000. When the ten-day auction ended, 617 cars had been sold, about $10 million had changed hands, and the government of Arturo Frondizi...