Word: hecticly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stated flatly that "no man in the White House has ever moved faster" than Johnson. In the hectic beginning days of the New Deal, F.D.R. announced the Good Neighbor Policy, called the bank holiday, passed the Federal Emergency Relief Act, took the U.S. off the gold standard, and started the CCC, AAA, TVA, HOLC, FDIC, FCA, NRA and WPA. And all that in 100 days, not five months. Johnson is a whirlwind, but Roosevelt was a cyclone...
More and more, Goldwater complains that because of his coast-to-coast campaign commuting, "my backside is taking on the shape of an airline seat." In mid-April he returned from a hectic California trip and laid down the law to his staff. "If this is the way it's going to be," he said, "I'm through...
Swallowed. Seconds earlier, Anchorage, a bustling city of 50,000, was undergoing the hectic but commonplace ritual of the evening rush hour. The downtown business district was filled with people walking and driving home from work. Suddenly the very earth cracked, roared and rolled. An amateur radio operator who was talking from his car to another radio ham in Seattle called out: "My God! What's happening?" The streets, he cried, were rippling like waves and the ground was pitching like an ocean. Streets split into gaping wounds, two of them 12 ft. deep and 50 ft. wide...
...book on decadence in the lower classes. Always modest, he says he had no idea that The Other America would be so influential. When asked if his life is different now that he has become an American cause celebre, Harrington commented only that "it's a little bit more hectic." Although his dedication to the poor forces him to accept speaking invitations, he appears indifferent to the enthusiasm with which he is greeted...
...Billy Graham will open three hectic days of speeches and conferences at Harvard with a lecture in Rindge Tech Auditorium at 8 p.m. tonight...