Word: hectically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...civic-minded lunching clubs, e.g., Kiwanis (membership: 250,000), Rotary (450,000) and Lions (564,000) are booming. Explains one Kansas City Kiwanian: "It's the new release valve. At a Kiwanis lunch, a man can find relief from business thinking for an hour or two during a hectic...
Rush & Fuss. The President's shortlived attack came after a hectic four days in which he flew to Florida, spent two days aboard the carrier Saratoga, worked on and delivered a major pep talk to Republican leaders meeting in Washington, and drove to Washington's American University to deliver a speech (in praise of the U.S. Foreign Service) while receiving an honorary doctor of laws degree. Over and above all else, the President was fretting about two items of substance: 1) the future of his legislative program, especially military and foreign-aid appropriations; and 2) the wrangle with...
...offstage firing of a revolver and by the slow illumination of his paintings, ranged about the dark walls like sun-filled windows. Although the opera tends to bog down in a weary series of recitatives, the choral writing is marked by a lush, dark-hued beauty, and the hectic orchestral writing is daubed with great splashes of instrumental color as dazzling and at times as savage as Van Gogh's own swirling canvases. A critical success, Van Gogh has already brought Kodalli nibbles from the Vienna Opera and Brussels' 1958 world's fair...
...real question is how educational it is to read a book solely to pass an exam. Certainly it can on occasion be a good thing since there is the possibility of becoming engrossed in the book. But preparation for Generals more often consists of a hectic race through a vast mass of material, the only result of which is a permanent prejudice against certain English authors...
...Considering legislation to aid Midwest corn farmers, the House ended a hectic two-hour session by voting down Democratic and G.O.P. proposals alike, offering no aid at all. Determined to include feed grains in the soil bank, farm-area Democrats defeated a plan to raise corn acreage limits 14 million acres, lower the support price 5? a bu. but require corn farmers to take soil-bank payments on some cropland. But the rural Democrats' move to include oats, barley, rye and sorghum in the soil bank was knocked down by a coalition of Republicans and city Democrats fearful...