Word: franticness
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...Goldwater country, Rockefeller's statement drew a fusillade of angry or contemptuous retorts. Snapped Henry Stollenwerck, Republican member of the Texas state legislature: "it sounds like a frantic statement from a man who has lost and knows it." Growled a Denver Republican leader, E. D. Nicholson: "Rockefeller is dead." To Mississippi's Wirt A. Yerger Jr., G.O.P. state chairman, the statement appeared to be "the scream of a drowning man going down for the third time...
Some U.S. scientists, too, have voiced misgivings about what one of them called the "frantic, costly and disastrous pace" of NASA's push toward the moon. Physicist Lloyd V. Berkner, former chairman of the National Academy of Sciences space science board, has warned against reducing the space race "to the spectacle of an athletic contest." Many scientists would prefer to see the U.S. explore space primarily with unmanned probes, incomparably less costly than manned space shots...
...Social Director's office was the scene of frantic activity yesterday, as Director Karin Ordahl and her girl Friday, Mary Jo Martin, prepared for the coming week-end. So varied were the offerings, the young ladies found it hard to decide which activity to push the most...
Paul Schmidt makes Hochepaix, a constituent and political enemy of Ventroux, into a rather senile old man who is properly out of place in the frantic Ventroux household. He almost underplays the part, however, and at times is totally obscured by the more energetic Mills...
...blind faith, or a frantic hope to recoup my lost two dollars. Candy Spots in the best three-year old in the nation. His Derby loss was the first of his career, and it might have been attributable to a surprisingly poor ride by Willie Shoemaker. Three times during the race "Shoe" got Candy Spots into a tight squeeze where he had to be checked, and this might have thrown the California colt off enough to cost him the victory...