Word: franticness
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What was happening, Washington was convinced, was not an unraveling, but rather a frantic posturing in advance of a peace settlement. Hanoi has been squeezing Washington partly because it worries that despite U.S. reassurances Nixon might be tempted to stiffen his peace terms once the U.S. election is successfully...
KRISLOV THEN REMINISCED about the frantic final weeks before, the New Crusader was finally sent to prison. "You know, I think I was the first guy to tell Jimmy that he was headed for jail. Jimmy took me aside one day and asked me how much time he had left. I said, 'Jimmy, you got only a week, two weeks at most because the Supreme Court just isn't going to consider your appeal.' Jimmy just started...
...activities has been the all-out use of former Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans to badger money out of corporate executives whose profits were once influenced by his departmental policies?and would be again if he were to return to the Cabinet after a Nixon reelection. Cynical, too, was Stans' frantic drive to round up more than $10 million in donations before a new law would make public the identity of the donors, and in spite of Nixon's pious pronouncement that disclosure would "guard against campaign abuses and work to build
...score. This allows him even more freedom of movement, and he takes advantage of it, yet with a sense of controlled energy. In General Dance, the last section of the work, Mehta captured all the flavor of the carousing, boisterous theme development. This section features several passages of frantic tension, reminiscent of Ravel's Fetes (from Trois Nocturnes), written more than ten years before Daphnis et Chloe. The three sections of the suite are played without pause, and Mr. Mehta achieved true continuity among all three, finally building into a raucous and jubilant climax at the end of the work...
...Diva, she has rarely sung as passionately or been so actively involved in the dramatic proceedings. Under Tito Capobianco's ingenious direction, Sutherland clearly dramatized the two sides of Norma's often enigmatic personality-severe and stately as the imperious high priestess of the Druids, yielding, even frantic as a woman in love with, and ready to kill for, a Roman proconsul (Tenor John Alexander...