Word: franticness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Foreigners and frantic Saigonese could see their salvation in the skies as giant U.S. Air Force C-130 and C-141 cargo planes and sleek commercial jets flew endless circles over the city. Among those asking for assistance at the U.S. embassy was none other than the nephew and namesake of Pham Van Dong, the Premier of North Viet Nam. Dong was a university professor in the city. "Don't you trust your uncle? " he was asked. "No," he replied. A group of Indian haberdashers who had made a killing in the lucrative money-changing business made plans to escape...
...refugees, there are also thousands of South Vietnamese peasants who have been and will continue to be friendly to the NLF, the army of South Vietnam, which has been abandoning, looting and even killing and raping civilians seems to be creating much of the atmosphere of panic and frantic retreat in Vietnam...
Matos, who receives 25% of Cordero's income, keeps his partner running at a frantic pace. "Angel loves to ride," says Matos. "He'll travel anywhere." On Sundays Cordero often flies to California to race, returning to ride on Monday in New York. In 1973 he commuted to Paris one Sunday to ride in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. The way he has been racing this year, they should bring...
...both his attempt to re-create the experience in every detail, combined with an examination of the morality and responsibility of the observer in times of action. It is a book of extraordinary tension. There are the 1,500 Attica inmates, flushed with their initial victory yet frantic with the knowledge that their moment of freedom is doomed by the authorities' unchallenged power and willingness to kill them. The heavily armed guards and state troopers poised over D-yard, where the uprising was encamped, were inflamed by false rumors that the hostages were being beaten, even sodomized...
...frantic comeback attempt by the Radcliffe cagers fell short Saturday at Williams as the undefeated Eph-women hung on to eke out a 48-45 victory...