Word: franticized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...outer boroughs have been reduced to twice a week. Epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis and syphilis have pushed the health-care system to the breaking point. As many New Yorkers are waiting for public housing as there are existing units, leading occupants to double or triple up in a frantic bid for shelter. "The chickens have come home to roost," says Madeline Lee, executive director of the New York Foundation, which supports community projects for the disadvantaged, "and New York doesn't let anyone escape from the reality of that...
After about 10 minutes of Hargis' slapstick signs and Baxter's frantic head-shaking, home plate umpire Peter Funt, the host of Candid Camera, approached the mound. Smile, Bobby...
After about 10 minutes of Hargis' slapstick signs and Baxter's frantic head-shaking, home plate umpire Peter Funt, the host of Candid Camera, approached the mound. Smile, Bobby...
...into the U.S. are pegged to the spot prices set by commodity traders at the New York Mercantile Exchange, where the cost of oil floats up and down according to global supply and demand. Though spot-market prices for gasoline rose 20 cents per gal. in the first few frantic trading days after the invasion, DiBona pointed out, the major oil companies boosted their wholesale prices by only 12 cents during that period...
Then came mad panic. In the scramble to escape, hundreds were crushed under the frantic feet of their co-religionists; others collapsed in the airless heat. "It was terrible," an Arab survivor told Saudi television. "When one stumbled, scores trampled him and hundreds fell on top of them." According to Islamic teachings, to die while on the hajj ensures immediate ascension to heaven. On that day 1,426 Muslims earned the privilege...