Word: franticized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...husband that his open-heart surgery would just have to wait. And what was the big occasion? Opening day of a sale at Tuesday Morning. The offbeat discount retailer, with stores in 52 cities, engenders a loyalty bordering on fanaticism among its customers. And that loyalty has fostered frantic growth. Since 1980, the Dallas-based discount chain (estimated 1990 sales: $110 million) has expanded from 35 outlets to 132 stores in 21 states, with profits climbing from $695,000 to a projected $5 million this year...
Outside The Stadium today, there was an aura of frantic competition. Budding capitalists hawked pennants, pins, programs, boxer shorts, sausages, T-shirts, T-shirts and more T-shirts. Chanting Afro-Am marchers strained to be heard above the din of the battling bands. Tipsy tailgaters engaged in miniature Harvard-Yale shouting wars...
...course, the clowning isn't always well received. When leading a visitor into one Babies Hospital room, Christensen was greeted with frantic wails. Coattails flying, he rushed out of the room. "That's my cue to leave," he explained. And as with any audience, some patients just refuse to see the humor. Christensen once paid a call on a teenage boy who was sitting by a window with his head lowered. He kept it down as Stubs conducted his exam. "I asked, 'Have you ever had your funny bone examined?' " Christensen recalls. "He said nothing. 'Does your nose ever turn...
After a decade of frantic overexpansion, commercial-property developers are reeling from hefty debt and rising vacancy rates. -- Cries of price gouging greet Big Oil's big profits...
...frustrating because we were really psyched," Co-Captain Beth Reilly said. "We played at a frantic pace at the beginning and we were just hitting the ball too hard...