Word: franticness
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...there seemed to be little likelihood that he would resume the frantic pace of his first 17 days in office. He has shed the foreign minister's portfolio, naming ex-Railways Minister Swaran Singh to handle India's relations abroad. It was a task that Jawaharlal Nehru himself used to carry, but there was no need for Shastri to kill himself merely in order to emulate his indefatigable predecessor. "It is not necessary," wrote a columnist in Bombay's influential Economic Weekly, "for Shastri to be Foreign Minister, Minister for Atomic Energy and Chairman of the Planning...
...passing motorists. They actually stand patiently--on the curb--while a red light flashes its warning. When it turns green in their direction, and all vehicles grind obediently to a halt, Washingtonians finally plod across the street. No muss, no fuss, no howling drivers, no bruised pedestrians, no frantic policemen...
...audience, in turn, is almost literally grabbed by the ears and dragged from the frantic heights of Dizzy Gillespie's jazz to the satin tones of Sarah Vaughan, and then blasted back to reality (of sorts) by the big noise of Count Basie and his band. The Festival is a real tour de force of the jazz world, and while it can never achieve the warm, intimate atmosphere of a small night club, it presents a survey of jazzmen and their styles unmatched anywhere...
...several occasions, she said, frantic young ladies have phoned to say that they just stepped out of the shower clad in a towel, are expecting a date to call any minute, and are locked out of their rooms. (These cries for help are calmly referred to the University police...
Both should have known better. For 15 frantic rounds, Griffith and Rodriguez pummeled, wrestled, gouged and butted each other-amid bloodcurdling screams from Griffith's mother, who was sitting at ringside. In the third round, Referee Harry Krause penalized Rodriguez for punching below the belt, and Rodriguez' manager, Angelo Dundee, chased Krause clear across the ring. "What are you doing, Harry?" he yelled. "Remember the other guy is fouling, too!" How could he forget? In the clinches, Griffith raked Rodriguez' face with the laces of his glove. Luis retaliated by throwing uppercuts with...