Word: hectically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...learn that Rancho del Monte had turned a profit of $4.98. "Do we take that four ninety-eight profit and plow it into a fund for our old age?" she asked. "We do not," Bill said stanchly. "We put every penny of it back into the ranch." After a hectic visit to New York which showed her just what she was not missing. Barbara agreed...
...article on political organizations, while much better, unjustifiably plays down a hectic year of squabbles over the political forum, Conservative Club machinations, and HYRC antics, with a rather naive discussion of "unity." It ignores the wide development of the Debate Council's activities, especially in the houses, during the past year. The articles on faculty promotion and tutorial, while poorly written, are good ideas. The feature on the theatre, best-written of all, is commendable for its vigorous criticism of the University--a refreshing trait in a publication traditionally noted for uncritical praise. A few spelling errors, however...
...campaign manager for Bill Knowland, now Senate minority leader. He helped in the Nixon campaigns for Congress in 1946 and 1948, and managed Nixon's campaign for the Senate in 1950. In the vice-presidential campaign of 1952, Chotiner helped guide Nixon through the hectic days of the Nixon fund uproar, and after the election was generally recognized-much to the irritation of some Southern California Republican bigwigs-as Nixon's closest home state contact...
...hectic duel between Cornell and Yale, in which the Big Red emerged victorious by a scant two feet, was a reversal of last week's Carnegie Cup race, when loser Cornell caught a crab at the finish. Yale apparently caught one this week about four strokes from the finish, and this possibly spelled the difference...
First, Macmillan rehearsed the melancholy facts beneath Britain's hectic prosperity-the rising prices at home, the declining exports abroad, the dwindling gold and dollar reserves as imports soared. "The economy is still running at a very high level,'' he said, but "there is really no future in importing extra materials that we cannot afford, in order to turn them into extra goods that we do not export.'' Like workers in a candy factory...