Word: franticized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Effectively, the law means that those who have to work must cram their shopping into a few frantic hours in the evenings or on Saturday mornings. Planning a weekend dinner party? Best to have the menu set by Thursday night. That way you can spend the next day going from butcher to baker to candlestick maker, purchasing the ingredients. (Germans still prefer to shop the old- fashioned way, buying a few things at a time at a multitude of stores.) But don't forget the Mittagspause, the lunch break that most mom-and-pop stores dutifully observe...
...developer who arrived in 1966, the hamlet has used its riverfront location to attract nine casinos since 1986. The town boasts more than 4,000 rooms in such hotels as Harrah's Del Rio and Circus Circus's Colorado Belle. Another 5,500 rooms are being built. However, the frantic pace of construction has strained Laughlin's meager civic resources. The town suffers from shortages of housing, labor and water and must send high school students across the river to Bullhead City, Ariz., until its own school can be built...
...million ransom, his family in Peoria, Ill., despaired: the sum was utterly beyond its reach. Then Marge and Roy Heimdal heard that the kidnapers had cut the ransom to $60,000, and issued an appeal for help. Over the next four days, all Peoria joined in a frantic campaign to raise the cash. Children sold lemonade; retirees held bake sales...
...more than a half-century. His local bank, which had promised to add $3 million to the firm's $15 million line of credit, suddenly backed out and warned him that he would soon lose access to the original $15 million. That sent Pappathanasi on a frantic dash for cash that ended when he found banks in New York City and London that were willing to lend. Says he: "I didn't sleep for two months chasing these loans...
What can be confirmed is that despite the frantic opposition of music lovers, the accordion gained wide notoriety, prompting such otherwise sensible composers as Sergei Prokofiev and Virgil Thomson to write for the instrument. When their work fell on deafened ears, Serg and Virg realized they had made a terrible mistake and returned to more dignified pursuits...