Word: frantic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Captain Pollard was not nor could he be thought to have dealt unfairly with this trying matter. On his arrival he bore the awful message to his mother as her son desired, but she became almost frantic with the thought, and I have learned that she never could become reconciled to the Captain's presence...
...mocks his belief in suicide as consolation, recalls his solemn and frantic pursuit of women, and reprints some of his early and awkward literary efforts. In the process, with an artlessness that conceals art, he manages to re-create not only his early self but the epoch that formed...
...does seem to reflect her mother's absorbtion. "I'm really just frantic trying to prepare papers for speeches I have to give," she told The Crimson in response to its interview request. She received world-wide acclaim for her book, and she spends her days lecturing and writing. And in 1978 Deane Lord called her "more of an impressive scholar than...
...Frantic diplomatic efforts by the U.S. succeeded in persuading Israel to hold its fire in the dangerous, 72-hr, period after the Israelis discovered the missiles. By that time, Washington had prepared its own initiative to relieve the pressure on both Damascus and Jerusalem. U.S. Ambassador to Israel Samuel Lewis personally hand-carried a 1¼-page letter from President Ronald Reagan to Begin. The letter reiterated U.S. assertions that Washington wanted to pursue diplomatic avenues before military action was taken. Begin interpreted the message as a continuing sign of U.S. sympathy for Israel's position on the missiles...
...mood, moguls turned frantic, searching their silk purses for overpriced sows' ears. Penny pinching was back in style, and the omnipotent auteur was on the ropes. U.A. Executive Steven Bach, who once called Cimino "the Michelangelo of film," now pointed out that his director had been "behind five days in shooting- in six days." Universal's Ned Tanen noted that The Deer Hunter, which his studio coproduced, had gone 50% over budget. Sherry Lansing of 20th Century-Fox assured the company's owner-to-be, Marvin Davis, that "there are no Heaven 's Gates here." When...