Word: franticness
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...editorial, Pravda heaped abuse on the Peking leadership, charging Mao Tse-tung with waging a "frantic struggle against the socialist countries." At a speech in Tashkent two weeks ago, Soviet Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev complained that China had ignored several Soviet offers of a non-aggression pact, the latest made last June. Said Brezhnev: "It is characteristic that the leaders of the People's Republic of China, who scream throughout the world about some Soviet threat supposedly hanging over them, didn't even bother to reply to this concrete proposal of the Soviet Union...
...brief and fleeting moment at the end of a Yale football game, simultaneously snatched fame and infamy from the miasma of Harvard athletic history. End-zone Crone, a man fading, pumping, scrambling with an effortless inviolability, zeroing in like a computerized homing pigeon, tightening and tightening the frantic gyre until he could settle to his knees on that corner of the Endzone,clutching a football with a pregnant, held sigh, heaving that sigh, and mumbling, "Here, at least, is a spot that will be forever Crone." Maintaining his hold on that inconsequential little square of Harvard soil, clutching it tenaciously...
...stick of rotten wood ("a nice appearance outside, but no caloric value when you out it in the fire"), who demands style and elegance above win-lost records, who interrupts crucial matches for summit conference on the strip and winds up after two or three or five minutes of frantic gesticulation and commentary, winds up after failing to find the words to fit the crisis, winds up emphasizing in cool an desperate tones: "You must...
...final moment, U.S. warplanes pummeled the area around Phnom-Penh, the Cambodian capital. It was the last day of more than six months of frantic U.S. air support of the Lon Nol regime, during which the U.S. flew 32,000 sorties (including 8,000 by B-52s) and dumped more than 245,000 tons of bombs on Cambodia. This deluge totaled 50% more than all the conventional bombs the U.S. rained upon Japan in World War II. Most of it, of course, was aimed at guerrillas hiding in heavy jungle. As a result, the bombing obviously did not inflict...
...fuss embraced by barren hearts, and it was a lost child who would kick up such rubbish to gain entrance into rooms so empty." Written with a sympathetic intelligence, at times fiercely lyrical, Buried Alive is an honest book about Joplin the idol and Joplin the victim in the frantic, manic disarray of rock in the '60s. A meticulous researcher, Friedman has taken great pains to document the Joplin chronicle as exhaustively as one might document the biography of a statesman-with the result that the large cast of minor characters may be recognizable only to groupies. Still, this...