Word: franticness
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Having risked everything for some piddling shoplifting, the three then made a disorganized, frantic escape, abandoning the van, stealing and discarding three cars along the way, and briefly kidnaping an 18-year-old boy named Tom Matthews, whom they eventually released unharmed. Matthews later said he thought that one of the women was Emily Harris, but he could not recognize the second from police photographs...
Harvard did it with a frantic 11 for 12 blitz of the last dozen contests, including seven of eight in the last week and a three-game sweep of Penn (2) and Princeton when the chips were on the line...
...traditional polarities, with Finance Minister Valery Giscard d'Estaing, 48, representing the right, and François Mitterrand, 57, leading a Popular Front of leftists that includes the Communist Party. As campaigning began for the final round of voting this Sunday, the two candidates are locked in frantic efforts to out-De Gaulle each other; three weeks ago, both were rapping the general's party...
...development, almost all the world's major nations entered a boom at the same time. Global competition for raw materials grew to an unprecedented pitch: last year every nation appeared to be trying to buy up all the wheat, corn, copper, soybeans and rice available anywhere, at whatever price frantic bidding might produce. That scramble continues for many commodities; the U.S. Government estimates that in fiscal 1974, which ends in June, American farm exports will total $20 billion, v. $8 billion only two years ago. Prices consequently rise, both in the importing nations that are bidding against each other...
...Starship is a pad away from home. Moreover, as Organist Jon Lord of Deep Purple-a heavy metal group that has booked Starship for five weeks-points out: "On regular airlines, there are always queues for flights, overbooking, lost luggage and canceled connecting flights. This tour already has less frantic a feel." And what commercial airline would allow its passengers to hold the plane on the tarmac for an hour in order to see an entire movie? That is what happened in Pittsburgh recently when the easy riders became absorbed in Deep Throat...