Word: franticness
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...Roseboro to check Chicago's famed speed on the base paths, and man for man the Dodgers were actually faster than the go-go Sox. One apparent Chicago asset: their pitching staff was well rested, while the Dodgers' was still giddy-eyed and weary-armed after the frantic, final dash to the pennant...
...Frantic Frank Lane, Cleveland's general manager, contributed to the general hilarity by firing and rehiring his long-suffering manager, Joe Gordon. Rankled by the Frantic One's abusive comments and second-guessing, the Flash quit the team as soon as the Indians were officially eliminated from the pennant race. A day later, Lane assembled reporters to introduce his new field boss--a fellow named Gordon, replete with raise and two-year contract...
...lightweight Coast Guard team against the hard-nosed recruits of Geneva College (enrollment: 900) in Beaver Falls, Pa. It was no fun-especially for Otto Graham. Hands jammed deep into his pockets, chomping gum furiously, he writhed on the sidelines as Geneva toyed with his cadets. He bellowed frantic warnings ("Pass! It's a pass!"), once barked at officials ("Watch those off sides...
...finals Coe started fast, drilling birdies on the first three holes, led two up after the morning round of 18 holes. But in the afternoon Coe began to wilt. He sent seven of nine tee shots into the rough, set six geese to frantic squawking by nearly dropping a ball into their pond...
...staged by Director Jose (Long Day's Journey into Night) Quintero, the tragedy emerged a moving mixture of sound and fury, dark plots, and love destroyed by desperate ambition. The night was filled with Quintero's sound effects-the frantic music of bagpipes, thunder, the clangor of horses' hoofs, bells, and. in the sudden striking silences, the rasp of crickets. Armies fought across the front of the vast Elizabethan stage with such intensity that those in front-row seats pulled back in alarm. Offstage entrances brought the action into the far reaches of the theater; Macbeth strode...