Word: hecticly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...well-organized nursery school, he noted, would add elements of stability and regularity to these children's otherwise hectic lives...
...first woman and the first biologist to serve on the Atomic Energy Commission, Mrs. Bunting's year off is hardly a year of rest. It's not hectic, she insists, but it is faster-moving than life at Brattle Street, and it is busy...
...school is sure of its goal-the study of the behavioral and social sciences-but in its first hectic weeks it is engagingly unsure of how to get there...
Neither political crises nor financial strains have slowed the hectic advance of Lebanon's biggest business. Although the government enacted its first banking-control code just this year, only one bank has failed-the small Banque Foncière Libanaise, which went down in February. The failure did not faze Beirut's flexible, resilient money men. Since it occurred, total deposits have continued to rise, and the freely convertible Lebanese pound is stronger than ever...
...life of the press corps which accompanies the President is hectic and tense. They must scramble to get off the plane and on the press buses on time; they must battle the crowd before it blocks the press section of the speaker's platform; they must scramble again to the buses and then out of the buses back onto the plane. The only time available to the press to write their stories is during flight, and there is a din of clattering typewriters on the plane at all times. Then there is a furious competition to reach the press telephones...