Word: franticness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Germans had pushed the British out of Libya. All that stood between the Nazis and Alexandria was the strongpoint at the arid village of El Alamein, 70 miles to the west. A worried Churchill sent Montgomery, an eccentric, bullheaded disciplinarian, to head the Eighth Army. In spite of frantic pleas from London, Monty -- as the Ulsterman asked his soldiers to refer to him -- took his time, rebuilding troop morale and stocking up on ammunition. Churchill wanted him to counterattack by September 1942. Montgomery chose to wait until Oct. 23. By that time the Eighth Army outnumbered Axis forces...
...Imelda, being Imelda, refused to abide by the plan to join her motorcade in a safely cleared area behind the terminal. Instead, she insisted on leaving through the arrival lobby in full view of the press and supporters. After two hours of frantic calls to the Malacanang Palace, President Corazon Aquino's executive secretary instructed police to let Imelda have...
...time wound down, the energy level of the game increased. Johnston was brought back to play defense, and she helped to frustrate the frantic Massachusetts attack...
Come the year 2010, the way the world's going to be then, you will be less traumatically affected by the nature of information, news and the ways it's transferred, disseminated and generated. Unlike myself, who gets nostalgic for a less frantic, less accelerated information environment. Things have come a long, long way. I remember an era when there wasn't AIDS. And I remember when there wasn't crack. When president did not mean Reagan, and leader did not mean Thatcher. I think young people don't know that it once was otherwise. And so there's none...
...Raffi is not the first star to become politicized. But there is something frantic and indiscriminate about his activism. Along with environmentalism, Raffi is lending his name across the countercultural spectrum: he supports aggressive feminism, Native American land claims and animal rights. He believes oil companies should shut down their refineries not soon, but tomorrow, and devote their profits to developing solar energy. No executive of any company should earn more than $1 million a year. "Would that be enough...