Word: franticness
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...population has been victimized by deliberate acts of brutality. A baby Australian wallaby left the protection of its mother's pouch and was stoned to death; a duck died with a steel-tipped hunting arrow in its breast. A pregnant reindeer miscarried after firecracker-hurling youths bombed the frantic animal into convulsions. Visitors have been observed dropping lighted cigar butts on the backs of alligators, watching the ashes burn through the reptiles' skin, then breaking into laughter when the alligators reacted to the severe burn. Finally, the zoo's male hippopotamus choked to death last week after...
...very least, their return seems emblematic of a group of lives that were filled with the kind of options that, amid the frantic energies of the times, might have appeared nonexistent, but, to a much more determniistic age, appear in some sad but nonetheless special way, somehow charmed. If only for the fact that, surrounded by the chaos of the forties, the silent death of the fifties, and the threats of the sixties, they once again survived...
...most coveted honor in U.S. horse racing, the Triple Crown? Last week a record crowd of 81,036 came to find out, as the big (16.1 hands) copper colt went to the post in the $125,000 Belmont Stakes, the final jewel in the Triple Crown. A fleet, frantic 2 min. 30.2 sec. later, the fans at Belmont and millions more watching on TV in the U.S. and Venezuela had the answer...
Meanwhile, over in Winthrop, Joe Stiles refused to let the frantic race upset him. Stiles is the athletic secretary. "I feel a sense of challenge, and I think it's good for the program," Stiles said. He said the outcome is a toss...
...frantic finishing sprint by the inspired Scarlet Knights nipped the Crimson for second place. The Middies, as expected, understroked all crews. After settling to too high in the morning heat, Navy rowed the body of the final race at 34 and sprinted at a relatively...