Word: franticness
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During the 1973 Arab oil embargo, the nation's major international oil companies did engage in some shortlived and frantic price gouging. That happened when OPEC prices began their dizzy upward spiral and the companies marked up the selling price of imported oil that had been brought into inventory before the prices rose. As much as $5 billion in windfall profits resulted. This happened at a time when the rest of the economy was plunging headlong into the worst economic downturn since the 1930s, and such cynical profit taking gave the oil companies a black eye. Few can forget...
...September night in the last days of a frantic pennant race and Yankee Manager Billy Martin tossed in his bed, looking for ways to get even with his boss. For a moment, still thinking like the street fighter he used to be, he had a drastic idea. He would walk right up to Owner George Steinbrenner, insult him and goad the boss into striking him. Too wild, he decided. If only Steinbrenner would stop sending those foolish statistics down to the dugout during the game, stop pushing him so hard to discipline the players. Discipline, Martin thought...
...that his responsibility was pinch-hitting because "when you open your suitcase, four hits fall out"-doubled off the wall in left field. A flurry of Dodger hits and Los Angeles was one game away from the pennant. Asked what had been his instructions to his players in the frantic final minutes, Lasorda replied: "I didn't say anything to Davalillo. I didn't say anything to Mota. I didn't say anything to anybody. I was only talking to God." But when God is the Great Dodger in the Sky, that's all the talking...
Nick Lowery's 40-yard field goal with :06 on the clock capped a frantic desperation drive by the Big Green to give Dartmouth an incredible three-point victory...
They come pouring in by the hundreds every weekend, avaricious tourists with gleams of glory in their eyes. The onslaught created such confusion and congestion in tiny Downieville, Calif, (pop. 500), that Sheriff Albert E. Johnson had to halt the frantic activity for four days last month. The cause of the stampede: old-fashioned gold fever...