Word: hectically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...convention opened, the squire from Libertyville took up his pencil and began to scribble out a draft of his acceptance address. He got scores of unsolicited suggestions and memos. After reading them, he tossed them aside and continued on his own. All last week, even during intervals in the hectic Truman crisis, he returned time and again to the isolation of his small, green-tinted law office on Chicago's South La Salle Street. There, shirt-sleeved and with tie askew, he revised, updated, rephrased and polished. On the convention's last night Adlai Stevenson stood up before...
...They seemed a trifle annoyed at the enthusiastic applause he got from ordinary citizens, a trifle embarrassed to find him the only Foreign Minister present-when they invited him, he was still only Pravda's editor. But Nasser himself found time in the week's hectic schedule to spend long hours with him in earnest talk. As the talks went on, Western embassies began to get carefully planted "leaks" on the generous terms of Shepilov's offers...
...five hectic and sweltering days last week, West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer toured the U.S. in the sunglow of the warmest welcome the U.S. had ever bestowed upon a leader of the Germans. He got honorary doctorates of law from Protestant Yale and Roman Catholic Marquette; he was ushered respectfully into the sickroom of the President-the first distinguished visitor since the operation; he was applauded in the streets of Washington, New Haven, New York, Chicag Milwaukee. Everywhere Konrad Adenauer bestowed upon his hosts a tried and towering good will, a sage and avuncular counsel...
...University's facilities; there are more professors and fewer coaches on the speaking platforms; for the 25th Reunion Class there is even a "Back to College Day" several months in advance, when Class members can attend lectures, inspect the Houses, and talk with Faculty members in a less hectic atmosphere than prevails in June. In sum, there is now a process of actually "re-educating" the alumni...
...Tory government of Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden has never brought itself to deal with Britain's hectic inflationary boom as sternly as its danger demanded. Gratified by the boom, relieved to be free of austerity, taking credit for the prosperity, the Tories have hesitated to air their anxieties too loudly. "This is the government that whispered 'Wolf!'" said one London wit. But last week, in the midst of London's gayest and most expensive social season since the war, Chancellor of the Exchequer Harold Macmillan cried it aloud...