Word: frantic
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...Frantic sounds of beverage concealment rose from the backseat. Kevin, speaking from his extensive high school experience with the Montana State Police, announced, "It's okay, you're sober. Just roll down the window He can't touch...
...leftist peasant leader, shouted, "Charge Malacanang! Break down the barricades!" and his followers returned a chant of "Revolution! Revolution!," the protesters closed with the security forces. At first the policemen held their ground, but as the crowd pushed forward amid a hail of stones, the police lines began wavering. Frantic police officers shouted, "You can't go through." Tadeo, struggling in the front lines, yelled back, "We're going to Malacanang, and you can't stop...
...Foreign Service and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Basel, did what many other gifted men have done when confronted with enforced leisure. He wrote a novel. The Billion Dollar Sure Thing (1973) involved the President of the U.S. and his Secretary of the Treasury in a frantic effort to save the international monetary system. It was short on narrative technique but long on expertise. There was no panting sex, and the sharks wore three-piece suits. Yet Erdman, like Bernie Cornfeld, another tarnished golden boy of the period, had a sheaf of raffish publicity behind...
...taught five courses at three different colleges, driving as much as 80 miles a day to keep all her teaching commitments. "I could get on the freeway and find I was going to the wrong place on the wrong day," she says. Her average aggregate salary for such frantic devotion: as little as $15,000, less than a fourth of the pay for a tenured full professor in the California system. In 1983, Roy finally won a probationary tenure appointment at Cal State. Her income has improved to about $28,000, but she still must sweat out the standard...
...pressure on controllers can vary from place to place. A few in low- traffic regions or in centers that are adequately staffed contend that they fight boredom rather than stress. That was not at all true of a frantic controller at the Los Angeles center at Palmdale, who, according to one airline captain, announced on a smoggy day: "There is more traffic than I can point out to you. Please be careful out there...