Word: hecticly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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McCracken first tapped the market twelve years ago, more or less by accident. A divinity student and radio sports announcer, he recorded a platter entitled The Game of Life-a hectic play-by-play account of a football game, with Jesus coaching the Christian team and Satan sending in plays to the Forces of Evil. Originally meant only for use by a Texas church group. Game proved to be such a galloping commercial success that McCracken decided to go into the business for good...
...clearer picture of the chromosomes inside them than had ever been available before. They counted and recounted the chromosomes. The total came to only 46 -though for 30 years scientists had been certain that the human species had 48. Touched off by the revolutionary Tjio-Levan discovery, six hectic years of work on chromosomal abnormalities have already revealed clear links with some physical and mental disorders. Dr. Tjio got a personal award of $8,333 but no cash for his research, because the U.S. Government is already financing...
Throughout the hectic day, the rugby team played five games while dead tired from their upset win over Amherst. Most of the team had arrived in New York after a night-long drive, with some having left immediately after the game on Saturday...
...more than 6,000,000 sales. Only once before, in 1959-60, has that been achieved. Auto stocks went up last week on Wall Street, helping to lift the Dow-Jones industrial average. It closed the week at 613.74, thus finally recovering all the ground lost since the hectic morning of Blue Monday...
...last week, as some 1,000 out-of-town buyers headed home after days of hectic shopping at Manhattan's annual Undergarment Market Week, their order books reflected little interest in the flat look. In scores of Manhattan showrooms, they had gravely inspected parades of full-breasted models wearing bras to make the mostest of the leastest, rather than vice versa. Said one buyer: "It may be chic in New York to be flat-chested, but the rest of American women still have bosoms and aren't really interested in looking like they...