Word: franticness
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...rather fight than eat or mate. Handlers first strapped razor-sharp spurs to the feet of their birds, then placed them on their marks on the clay-floored ring. At the referee's cry of "Pit!", the cocks were released to clash feet-first in mid-air in frantic flurries of squawks and feathers...
Simple Rules. But however frantic the betting became-or however bloody the fighting-the audience never failed to behave in the restrained manner befitting such a tradition-hallowed affair. The small children roaming the ringside heard no profanity, and no liquor was served inside the arena. As a sign over the door reminded the patrons of the best cockfighting in the U.S.: "Rules of this club are the simple rules that govern ladies and gentlemen everywhere...
...sounds like the biggest ship ever taken over for political or private purposes," Albion commented last night. Meanwhile, Henrique Malta Galvao, the exiled Portuguese author and adventurer now in command of the $1.6 million Santa Maria, successfully eluded three navies during a day of frantic search in the Caribbean...
Orders for shipments started coming in immediately. Apparently the black, glossy cards stood out on racks of standard white, and the photographed models offered welcome relief from two-dimensional cartoons. Particularly frantic requests for more came from college towns, where the undergraduate wit of the captions struck home...
Suggested by a story in TIME (April 13, 1959), Where the Boys Are describes one of the more frantic phenomena of the affluent society: the annual Spring-Ding or Florida Flip of the book-bashed, sun-starved North American undergraduate. Come Easter vacation, students from all over the Northeast and Midwest pile into anything that holds gas and roar south. In recent years, more than 20,000 of these "migratory shirkers" have settled for the two-week season in Fort Lauderdale, and there the camera finds them-soaking up sun and beer, sleeping twelve to a motel cell...