Word: franticness
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Silent Filibuster. As a sometime Senate talk champion, Oregon's Morse fittingly started the filibuster off fortnight ago, getting the floor and holding it for two rambling days. Another day was spent in constant calls for quorum, in which only six minutes were spent on debate. In frantic attempts to muster a quorum on a summer Saturday, Senate Democratic leaders summoned Senators to Washington from as far away as Mackinac Island in Lake Huron, even dispatched a Navy PT boat to fetch three Democrats from the nuclear merchant ship Savannah, cruising off Norfolk, Va. At one point, Minnesota...
...years ago, an 8-lb. dumbbell used to prop a window screen slipped from a maid's frantic grasp and plummeted eight floors from the Ritz Tower Hotel to hit and fatally injure a vacationing Detroit financier walking up Manhattan's 57th Street toward Park Avenue with his wife. Ending a $500,000 suit against the apartment's owners. TV Star Arlene Francis and her husband, Producer Martin Gabel, the widow of Alvin Rodecker settled for $175,000 from the Gabels and $10,000 from the Ritz Tower, both insured for such public liability...
After a few days of relative calm on Wall Street, investors last week decided again that the stock market was no place for their money. Rushing in with sell orders that pushed volume on the New York Stock Exchange up to a frantic 6,240,000 shares, they knocked the Dow-Jones industrial average down to 560.28 on Thursday. June 14. It was the lowest close since December 1958. Next day there was a predictable rebound, as short sellers moved in to replace at bargain prices stock that they had borrowed when it was higher. Even so, the Dow-Jones...
With that, the voice, which was indeed Ted Kennedy's, whispered in a frantic aside to aides standing near by: "When's the President's birthday? Is it the 27th or the 29th...
This might prove to be extreme, for not many section men could keep a single book exciting for eight weeks, even if the lecturer could. Yet the idea is an important one, and something could probably be done to relieve the sense of frantic pressure a freshman feels when handed a Humanities 3 or Social Sciences 5 reading list. Each of these courses is taught well, generally, and they are popular with students, but much of the time spent in sections is devoted to explaining the books which were hastily read if read...