Word: paroxysmic
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Saturday, November 1-- Without their stellar quarterback, Penn collapses in a paroxysm of blocked punts, interceptions, and fumbles. Disguised as Mayor Frank Rizzo and hobbling on crutches, a Penn student attempts to steal the Harvard band's drum, but is discovered and soundly trounced. Graustein, meanwhile, has claimed he was drugged. Harvard...
...Fealty. Only four other times since the end of World War II had Franco felt the need to call for such a massive show of support. His purpose last week was not so much to intimidate the regime's enemies within Spain as to respond defiantly to the paroxysm of anti-Franco rage that swept Western Europe following Madrid's executions of five terrorists convicted of murdering policemen (TIME, Oct. 6). In this he succeeded. Flanked by his wife Carmen and his heir-designate Prince Juan Carlos de Borbón y Borbón, Western Europe...
...Samuel, the community is the place where the victorious Philistines hung the bodies of King Saul and his son Jonathan on the city gates as trophies of war. Last week there were other human trophies of war in Bet She'an, as the townsfolk surrendered to a paroxysm of anger that symbolized the black and explosive mood of embattled, besieged Israel today...
Even in old age he looked impressive, with his 6-ft. 200-lb. frame and his graying hair dyed black. When he returned home last year in response to his countrymen's desperate summons, his appearance triggered a paroxysm of jubilation. Hundreds of thousands turned out to cheer him, but more than 100 were killed as rightist and leftist Peronistas ended up fighting each other. The violence was symbolic of Perón's last reign: he was too old and too ill to solve Argentina's festering problems...
...President's inadvertently provocative speech was broadcast to 250,000 restless young Perónists who had gathered in and around Buenos Aires' Plaza de Mayo. Cámpora's words led to a paroxysm of rioting and looting, during which outgoing President Alejandro Lanusse was spat upon and Antonio Cardinal Caggiano, the 84-year-old primate of Argentina, was jostled when demonstrators rocked...