Word: hecticly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these pictures, we maintain a Picture Research staff, whose dozen members mine the world each week in search of the singular picture which will best illuminate a story, whether the subject is king, clown or space capsule. The picture researchers-all of them women-have a hectic work week, since in most cases the question as to which picture will be most effective is not answerable until the story has taken shape. Thus the girls must mix the prophetic with the photographic, culling from many sources hundreds of pictures that may or may not satisfy fast-changing requirements of world...
...inscribed instead on the list of guests to be invited to a party at the producer's house. And that is how Peter Sellers happens to show up in brownface with a mild Oriental smile and a wild Oriental eye to turn a black-tie dinner into a hectic crescendo of slapstick, sight gag, pratfall and pandemonium...
...friend in Philadelphia and others around the world, we have come up with the cover story on the future of money, focused mainly on the International Monetary Fund and its managing director, Pierre-Paul Schweitzer. As anyone can imagine, these are hectic days for Schweitzer, but he spent a good deal of time last week talking with our Washington economic correspondent, Juan Cameron, about the international monetary situation. And we must acknowledge some help from the Philadelphia secretary, for Schweitzer* had read what she told the Journal and decided that he wanted "to reach that young lady and explain...
...since well back in 1967, last week will be remembered as the time when it really got hot. And as we went to press at week's end, the staff members in The Nation section knew that they had been through what was just one of many rather hectic weeks between now and November...
...seniors who bothered, who were not real "Walter Mittys," in the words of one University President, the spring was a hectic scramble to get out of service legally. Many hired lawyers to give them advice and to defend them if they needed it. Others looked into bizzare possibilities: setting up an agricultural cooperative to gain II-C exemptions as farmers, applying to Divinity School, undergoing psychoanalysis. For many, the ploys worked. But the pressure was enormous. For many, the greater part of the Spring semester was spent trying to figure out ways to evade the draft, and failing...