Word: frantic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Older brother Jim lay waste his opponent's frantic efforts for points. In his first game, he let in just three points. In his second game, just five. The third was a little sloppier, with thirteen points rearing their ugly heads into the game--almost making the match close. But Masland kept his cool...
...Frantic attempts by Communist leaders to avert the strike failed, as workers joined the pro-democracy movement started by students, artists and intellectuals...
Teachers ran into the cafeteria rubble, clawing at debris to reach fallen children. Fire fighters sobbed as they freed trapped children, many of whom they knew. When the frantic rescue ended, seven youngsters were dead and 18 hospitalized, three with critical injuries...
...deadpanned nonstop alliterations into the phone as he promoted an employee ("I'm putting you in charge of Pittsburgh, Peter!") and closed a contract ("Dick, what's the deal with the deal?"). The 1982 Federal Express commercial featuring the fast-talking Mr. Spleen struck a chord in frantic managers everywhere. Last week it was rated the best ad of the 1980s in a Top Ten list compiled by the One Club, an industry group...
According to Daily Editor-in-Chief Tom Geier, the staff was "frantic" until a careful study of the parody revealed that the Cornell Daily Sun was the perpetrator...