Word: franticness
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...took World Heavyweight Champion Rocky Marciano nine rough rounds of wild and frantic slugging at New York's Yankee Stadium to dispose of his ancient (38) and honorable challenger, Light Heavyweight Champion Archie Moore...
...American Stock Exchange, a frantic scramble for oil stocks started when news was flashed of a big oil discovery in Israel (see FOREIGN NEWS). In minutes, everyone wanted shares in four small oil companies wildcatting in Israel...
...Free Officers began cleaning up: half the old officer corps, hundreds of police and some judges were fired; others were imprisoned. The press, radio and universities were brought under control. Nasser's young officers went into every department of government. An internal intelligence system was set up. The frantic, dizzying pace of affairs befuddled Prime Minister General Naguib. "I would like to rule the country like Gandhi, without official responsibility," said he worriedly. He was not long for this rough game...
Outside the traditional Japanese house facing famed Ueno Park roars the frantic traffic of Tokyo 1955. But behind the high wall with its iron-studded cypress-wood gates is the peaceful stillness of classical Japan. There, in a severely unadorned room opening on a small garden of wild grasses, stunted pines and an artificial brook, sits the black kimonoed figure of Taikwan Yokoyama, Japan's greatest living traditional artist. A fiercely independent man of monumental rages, Yokoyama today firmly treads the paths laid out by Japan's past masters, paints in styles that recall the Ukiyo...
...Silvana Mangano) can call up tempests or turn men into porkers with equal ease. The screen writers have added one imaginative touch to the incident of the Sirens' rock: as his galley is rowed past that bone-littered shore. Ulysses, bound to the mainmast, is driven to frantic despair by the pleading voices of his wife and son, crying to him that he must not desert them any longer...