Word: franticness
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...traveling dentist, Painless Peter Potter, for a blind and tipped off the crooks that he was the Federal. The two race through an ambush, two dozen gunfights, a chase, and an Indian war dance before they finally escape from the crafty redmen and foil the outlaws. It's a frantic plot, and it's played strictly for the laughs...
Women & Shmoos. Undeniably, the U.S. had domestic peace and prosperity, even if it was made uneasy by the tension in the rest of the world. Its fads and foibles rang changes on those of other years, but they were unmistakably American. Bebop, a frantic, disorganized musical cult whose high priest was quid-cheeked Dizzy Gillespie, replaced swing; the Shmoo took the place of 1947's Sparkle Plenty...
...sooner was the session convened than members of the opposition began shouting for the Finance Minister to discuss the budget. The Diet recessed four minutes later, and Izumiyama's frantic colleagues tried to revive him: they drove him home in an open car, then back again; finally they took him to the Diet medical room, where stimulants were injected. But Izumiyama was out cold...
...inflation will, it had sneaked up unbeknownst. All of a sudden, with a rule change here, a new technique there, games that used to be well-balanced and even-paced had become frantic high-scoring battles. Judging by attendance, and audience enthusiasm, the crowds liked it that way. But here & there a small voice could be heard-asking what had happened to football, hockey and basketball...
...frantic '403, fences had been shortened to make the home run cheaper; and in a good many other games, the rules had been changed to accent the offense. In the '303 many a final basketball score was 34-30 or thereabouts. In Madison Square Garden fortnight ago, a college quintet, Ohio's Bowling Green, scored 97 points, the highest in the Garden's history. No less than four professional basketball teams had scored 100 or more points this season only to lose the game...