Word: franticness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...color; others belonged to a white supremacist league. (As this book reveals for the first time, Degas had some relatives among those free men of color.) Not just the Musson family but all of New Orleans was similarly split. Lingering bitterness against Reconstruction was easily detectable, as was the frantic energy of the cotton brokers in the Musson family firm. Degas was captivated even by the colorful strangers engrossed in their quotidian promenade near the Musson house...
Parker and Dawson heard about the crash on the car radio. Keith Morehouse was home watching The Newlywed Game with his mother and his twin sister when the bulletin flashed across the screen. "My mother shrieked and started making frantic phone calls," Keith recalls. "People started coming over, and it was a blur after that." Longtime Huntington residents can tell you without hesitation where they were when they first heard the news--at the drive-in movie theater, in a restaurant, at a dance. Jack Hardin, a police reporter for the Huntington Herald-Dispatch, rushed to the airport not knowing...
Unfortunately, DeLima's Moya does not share in the connection binding her children; in fact, she barely seems connected to the play. She wafts in and out of the living room like some brittle hostess from a Victorian drawing-room comedy. Her frantic fussiness and deliberate animation are doubtless intended to conceal her sorrow at the loss of her husband, but instead Moya comes across as a callous coquette concerned only with the progress...
...first half was awful," Basil said. "We were totally frantic, and nothing was working offensively...
...this nanosecond trading world. I was able to scoop up some Dell Computer at 79 at 10 a.m. and flip it at 89 by 2:30. Same with Chevron and Microsoft. By 2:45 it was an upside panic. In fact, Intel triggered a frantic wave of buying simply by not denying a rumor, reported on CNBC, that it was about to announce a massive buyback. In fact, it has one already, but why knock a specious but positive report? In the closing hour I locked in profits from the morning that normally take me three to four quarters...