Word: franticness
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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...
...strategy was an enormous success. Only 79 drivers were so frantic to get to Las Vegas that they took the chance of making a run for it. Spotted by an airplane and a helicopter hovering overhead, they were soon ticketed by other patrol cars lurking on access roads. Normally, a dozen accidents take place on a big weekend, but only one occurred during the experiment: a drunk mistook a drainage ditch for an exit ramp...
...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...
Most of the frantic fun of the evening came from watching the backstage counterpart to these on stage strategy "huddles," which last about a minute during an interlude of piano improves. I knew vaguely what I was in for from the start: while one or more of the actors spin off their impromptu concatenations of wit through either a song or some kind of personal encounter (in Confucianist, "Sun Yat Moon," might lecture on vices to some Process people in the Square), their colleagues are "in the pit" furiously scribbling down rhymed verse, puns, or plotty narratives for the upcoming...