Word: franticness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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China came in for harsh treatment. In some of the strongest language from Moscow in years, Brezhnev blasted Peking for "frantic attempts to torpedo détente, to obstruct disarmament, to breed suspicion and hostility between states, to provoke a world...
...Guatemala City when Genaro Castro was jolted awake by the thunderously loud rumble of buckling earth and masonry. Grabbing his terrified and screaming child, he stumbled over the shifting floor of his adobe house to the door. A pressure beyond his frantic strength held it shut. While he was still grappling with the door, the front wall of his home crashed outward into the street, leaving Castro and his son standing exposed but unharmed. They had just survived one of the century's most destructive natural disasters...
Maybe that's what touches off Tharp's style--the way we stare not seeing, taking in all with equal unconcern, entangled in minute tasks, frantic that there seems nothing more. Like Tharp's dance, high-speed fumbling...
...only Dave Bell's desperation buzzer drive had managed to elude B.U. goaltender Brian Durocher in the frantic finale of last night's opening round of the Beanpot Tournament...
...buzzer, Mulvihill made a frantic lunge at his opponent, who refused contact and was called for stalling for the fourth time, giving Mulvihill two more points...