Word: frantic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That prospective performance compares with a 4% growth last year, which was the worst since the Common Market's first full year. Earlier this year, EEC experts predicted a slowdown of lesser proportions. The German recession, however, proved more durable than anticipated; despite recent frantic efforts to revive business, a fifth of Germany's industrial capacity stands idle. This year, the country's gross national product is expected to drop about...
Then there was the frantic competition, the whole complex economic side of bandleading that the restless, sensitive Artie Shaw said "just plain stinks." In the end, it was this side that helped kill the bands. World War II changed the U.S. entertainment atmosphere: the draft called away many top musicians, and those who were left traveled less; the musicians' union imposed a ban on recording that lasted two years; ballrooms converted to bowling alleys...
...from the two, sending them through the first act so breezily that the disease and terror which clank from the script are reduced to melancholy, and even that faded. It is worth purchasing a copy of the play to take the measure of their achievement. Miss Russell sustains a frantic levity, as though she shortly expected her limbs to drop off. Placed against this is Miss Cox's bitter rationalism, her consciousness that everything she does is correctly reasoned from false premises...
...fifth day of the battle for Loc Ninh, the enemy had lost more than 900 men in their frantic, futile efforts to seize it. Allied losses were fewer than 50 dead...
...kind of statistics fans like to brag about-a .263 team batting average and five pitchers with wins in double figures. So it was hardly surprising that they went into the series as 3 to 2 series favorites, while Boston was still reeling from one of the most frantic four-team pennant scrambles in American League history. That the Red Sox made it at all was due largely to the heroics of their two stars: Leftfielder Carl Yastrzemski, 28, winner of batting's triple crown (.326 average, 44 home runs, 121 RBIs), who got seven hits in his final...