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Word: franticness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then there is the almost legendary story of the calm, collected Fairbank and his frantic graduate student who could not manage to turn in his thesis. After Fairbank's usual strategy of telephoning the delaying student at 8 p.m. on Sunday failed to persuade him to work a little faster, Fairbank showed up at the student's home at that ungodly hour--to pay a visit. (Ungodly, that is, for the grad student; for Fairbank, who is always home by 10 p.m. no matter what the occasion, it was the middle of the morning.) Fairbank noticed a mass of typewritten...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fairbank Perceived: | 6/16/1977 | See Source »

...megalomaniac bent on re-establishing the Persian empire by military conquest, and secretly developing a nuclear arsenal with which to blackmail his Arab neighbors. By story's end, the Western world is in shambles, with America's banks engulfed in a depositors' panic, supermarkets emptied by frantic hoarders, and half the world's oil reserves contaminated by nuclear fallout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROPHECIES: Doom for Fun and Profit | 6/13/1977 | See Source »

...What money?" Long John can tell Harpo is getting a little frantic when he hears that question...

Author: By Jefferson M. Flanders, | Title: A Bookies Delight | 5/6/1977 | See Source »

...content to control the city through its finances, operating from plush State Street bank offices, escaping to North Shore farmhouses and summer homes on the Cape. In one of the more effective vignettes in the book, Lupo juxtaposes a Republican-sponsored cocktail party in placid Dover with the frantic, non-stop efforts of Kevin White to cool the city down...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Poor as Political Pawns | 4/15/1977 | See Source »

...yelled Bragg as Grubbs gunned his engines in a frantic effort to veer onto the grass and out of the path of the onrushing KLM. As the crew stared in horror, the nose of the KLM lifted sharply?but not high enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: ...What's he doing? He'll kill us all!' | 4/11/1977 | See Source »

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