Word: frantic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Christmas. It had not always been that way. Once there was only one day a year when people exchanged presents as we do. There was only one Santa Claus then, and it was all he could do to prepare presents for everyone and then distribute them all in one frantic night of frenzied, orgiastic gift-giving. It inevitably took a team of psychiatrists several months to rebuild the monomaniacal old man's psyche, and Santa inevitably spent the rest of the year following his recovery doing a slow build-up to that December night when he would once again rush...
...started only 30 seconds into the match when the Jumbos' Jim Wade headed in a Matt Troxell corner kick. From there he led the Crimson through a nightmare of sluggish defense and play-the-opposition's-frantic-style offense. The game was uncharacteristic of a team that almost defeated Brown just three days earlier...
During the 1973 Arab oil embargo, the nation's major international oil companies did engage in some shortlived and frantic price gouging. That happened when OPEC prices began their dizzy upward spiral and the companies marked up the selling price of imported oil that had been brought into inventory before the prices rose. As much as $5 billion in windfall profits resulted. This happened at a time when the rest of the economy was plunging headlong into the worst economic downturn since the 1930s, and such cynical profit taking gave the oil companies a black eye. Few can forget...
...September night in the last days of a frantic pennant race and Yankee Manager Billy Martin tossed in his bed, looking for ways to get even with his boss. For a moment, still thinking like the street fighter he used to be, he had a drastic idea. He would walk right up to Owner George Steinbrenner, insult him and goad the boss into striking him. Too wild, he decided. If only Steinbrenner would stop sending those foolish statistics down to the dugout during the game, stop pushing him so hard to discipline the players. Discipline, Martin thought...
...that his responsibility was pinch-hitting because "when you open your suitcase, four hits fall out"-doubled off the wall in left field. A flurry of Dodger hits and Los Angeles was one game away from the pennant. Asked what had been his instructions to his players in the frantic final minutes, Lasorda replied: "I didn't say anything to Davalillo. I didn't say anything to Mota. I didn't say anything to anybody. I was only talking to God." But when God is the Great Dodger in the Sky, that's all the talking...