Word: hecticly
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...keep talking when both sides are scarcely on speaking terms and to set a breakneck pace for negotiations at the first sign of a thaw. To win withdrawal of the Red army from Austria, Thompson haggled fruitlessly through 379 meetings for nine years, then achieved agreement in eleven hectic days...
...Wesselmann silk-screened the image of a nude onto plastic, then shaped it to capture its contours as well. Britain's Eduardo Paolozzi used eleven colors for Wittgenstein in New York, incorporated such city elements as jets, skyscrapers, and the man from a Bufferin ad to tick off hectic modern life. Roy Lichtenstein printed his Moonscape on metallic plastic that shimmers like aluminum foil. Claes Oldenburg made a serigraph print and attached a rust-colored felt...
After two days of hectic debate, the T.U.C. gave Wilson the best he could reasonably expect: reluctant acquiescence to his wage-price freeze. But the narrowness of his victory was disturbing: with nearly 9,000,000 proxy ballots cast, he scraped through with a margin of only...
Hand in Hand. Luci's last days as Miss Johnson and her first as Mrs. Nugent were, like Luci herself, a beguiling blend of the gay and the sentimental, the hectic and the religious, the Texan and the presidential. There were parties every day, starting with a reception for the diplomatic corps, progressing through a Western-style cookout to a black-tie dinner dance on the wedding eve, where President Johnson sentimentally declared in a toast that he was "as proud as a man can be when his youngest daughter is doing the most wonderful thing in the world...
Boycotted. It took five years of hectic negotiations to create Eurofarm. Just last year, when the French boycotted the Common Market for seven months over the issue of farm financing, it looked as if the whole European Community might fall apart. It was largely a struggle between farm-efficient France, which wanted low prices to open up the Common Market to its farmers, and factory-efficient Germany, which wanted to protect its uneconomical, small-scale agriculture. As was in evitable if agreement was to be reached at all, last week's pact was a compromise. It fixed the prices...