Word: franticness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nick Lowery's 40-yard field goal with :06 on the clock capped a frantic desperation drive by the Big Green to give Dartmouth an incredible three-point victory...
They come pouring in by the hundreds every weekend, avaricious tourists with gleams of glory in their eyes. The onslaught created such confusion and congestion in tiny Downieville, Calif, (pop. 500), that Sheriff Albert E. Johnson had to halt the frantic activity for four days last month. The cause of the stampede: old-fashioned gold fever...
...began early in the week, when both Exxon and U.S. Steel announced lower second-quarter earnings. Then on Wednesday came a shocker from Bethlehem Steel, which reported an operating loss of $75.4 million for the first half and cut its dividend. With that, the slide turned to slaughter: in frantic trading, the Dow plunged almost 20 points. For the week, it closed down 33 points, at 890.07, almost 10% below its January level...
...commodity when they see one. He is booked up solid for the next two years and could go for six just by saying yes often enough. "Sometimes I feel like I'm in Fellini's 8½," he says, throwing his hands in the air like a frantic juggler. "What do I do? What do I do? What do I do?" He adds quickly: "I'm in control. I am busy because I want to be busy...
...about two years coffee drinkers have bitterly watched prices jump from $1.46 a Ib. to more than $4. A crop-killing frost in Brazil in 1975 touched off frantic bidding by buyers who feared a shortage; several coffee-producing countries aggravated the rise by increasing export taxes on the beans. Now the U.S. Department of Agriculture forecasts that Brazil, which normally grows about a third of the world's supply, will harvest about 17 million bags of beans in the crop year that begins Oct. 1-not far from double the 1976-77 crop of 9.5 million bags...