Word: franticness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From the start of the occupation, the Administration followed a sit-tight policy, preferring to pursue increasingly severe legal sanctions against the demonstrators rather than use police power to evict them. And despite the worries of some frantic letter-writing alumni who scorned the trespass on sacred University property (Mass Hall is Harvard's oldest brick structure, built in 1720), the strategy paid off. Only a week after the occupation began, the blacks decided to vacate the building rather than face heavy fines and jail sentences...
Trying to keep track of the pregame maneuverings in the Fischer-Spassky match is as confounding as the game itself. The moves have been fast, frantic and just plain farcical. A running account of the shenanigans resembles the notation for a twelve-move grand-master stalemate...
...life of an audacious female undercover agent, Past Butler, whose voluntary role in the scheme is to bed down with a high-rolling black pimp who works Times Square. The irony upon which Mills builds his book is that Lockley--the fumbling, naive newcomer--spoils the plan in a frantic effort to do his job well, to show Seidensticker and the other detectives that he is capable of success. But he doesn't lay off when the higher-ups say to, he pursues the girl they asked him to find as part of their designs on promotion. He finds...
Barney makes a last frantic stab at infidelity with the melancholic wife of one of his neighbors in suburban Great Neck. Now the positions are reversed. Barney, after his combat training, has become the manic aggressor; Jeanette Fisher is the coward, full of fear and un certainty. Barney finally bundles Jea nette into a cab, then goes to a phone booth to call his wife Thelma and in vite her down to Mom's for a romantic afternoon...
MIAMI BEACH--The transformation which by late yesterday had turned the Doral from a plush resort hotel to Senator George McGovern's frantic campaign headquarters began here Saturday...