Word: frantic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what most distinguishes Tokyo Disneyland from its American forebears is its user-friendly audience. There are no screeching infants along its spotless walkways and no teenagers on the make. At closing time, after soft neon and colored lights have turned the place into a lovely fairyland, there is no frantic rush for the gates. Elegant secretaries and college boys in shirts bearing the vaguely anarchic slogan CIVIL RIGHT FREAK YOU KNOW UNIVERSITY EDUCATION stand in orderly lines until sweetly smiling cheerleaders lead the crowd forward in regimented squads...
...only Democrat who continues to reach out and tap the minds of the country's best thinkers, said Hart, is Bill Bradley. That kind of broader thinking, he observed, cannot be acquired during frantic election campaigns. "You can't run for President," he said, "if you don't already know what you think...
There are 23 shopping days until Christmas and already the lights are lit, the wreaths hung, and the stores packed with frantic shoppers...
...able to provide money for ourselves; someone or something else must do that for us -- our employers or, until recently, our stocks. All that, money can do; and when such essential, familiar functions are snatched from one's life, small wonder that people may grow wild, frantic, even (as in the shooting in a stockbrokers' office in Miami last week) murderous...
Just before the opening bell, Phelan reads aloud a message from President Reagan praising traders for their "calm, professional" work during the frantic week. Citibank lowers its prime rate by a quarter-point, to 9%; other New York banks follow within 20 minutes. Inexplicably, the market plummets 138 points in the first 45 minutes...