Word: franticness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bizarre Drama. The Palestinian diplomatic coup was the climax of a bizarre week-long drama of Arab and Israeli face-saving, double-talking, bluff-calling and epithet-hurling. It began when the Security Council, after frantic three-day consultations, accepted a Syrian demand that renewal of the mandate for the U.N. forces on the Golan Heights be linked to a proposal for a full-scale Security Council debate on the Middle East. Representatives of the P.L.O., who gained permanent observer status in the General Assembly last year but had never been included in Security Council proceedings before, were...
...class. He has calculated that he attends just over 70 per cent of his classes--average attendance at the Law School is closer to 95 per cent. "Grades? I don't want to get on the Law Review," he says. But he adds, wryly, "Of course, I may be frantic in January...
...studied. They succeed. They select what they consider to be the best of the Adams correspondence and add letters to outsiders, diary entries and autobiographical selections. The result is a smooth reading narrative that carries the reader from the first faint glimmerings of trouble with England into the frantic months of Independence and beyond...
...Dubonnet on the rocks and glumly sidestepping questions. A few minutes earlier, he had canceled a press conference at which he had intended to announce that he was resigning because of criticism of his don't-tread-on-me style as ambassador. But in a series of frantic, last-minute telephone calls, high Administration officials had persuaded him to postpone his decision and talk over his grievances this week with President Gerald Ford...
...rematch the following fall. The teams met again in November 1876, in a game notable for a lack of contribution by the groundskeepers, and a superfluity of contribution by the spectators. Only after the players had arrived at Hamilton field did someone notice there were no goalposts. A frantic last minute search turned up nothing better than clothesline attached to parallel stakes. Throughout the game both lines held tightly, Yale scoring the contest's sole goal towards the end of the first half. Then, with only a minute or so remaining, Harvard launched a fearsome drive, muscling the ball near...