Word: franticized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Wood Ants all over that part of Surrey chose Midsummer Day for their nuptial flight. No one was prepared for this in 1861--indeed, the young adults and the school-room inhabitants were all partaking of a strawberry picnic on the lawn when the swarming began, and hundreds of frantic, tumbling creatures, male and female, dropped out of the sky and into the cucumber sandwiches and the silver cream jugs, scurrying away in attached pairs, drowning in strawberry juice and Orange Pekoe, scrambling across spoons and lace doilies...
...plot (there have been several variations over the years), the central character is a boy of four when his long-missing father returns home from a German POW camp. The father, presumed dead, finds his wife in the embrace of another man, quarrels with him and shoots him. The frantic parents instruct their son never to speak of this event to anyone...
...play works best on the level of frantic comedy. Here, the high level of tension succeeds in its task. Both Selig and Haahr have an excellent sense of comedic timing, and play off each other well. They successfully embody "typical" Boston Catholics, and then gently poke fun at these same stereotypes...
...that Oppenheimer made a call to Wasinger late that night, threatening him personally with "retaliation" if Wasinger and AALARM pursued his case with the administration. This, apparently, is the kind of "non-violent, non-affrontive [sic] debate" that Oppenheimer and his fellows on the BGLSA are interested in--the frantic effort to limit the free speech of others by vandalism or intimidation...
...After a frantic search lasting more than a decade, Harvard Medical School researchers will report this week that they have located the elusive genetic defect responsible for Huntington's disease...