Word: frantic
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...century, but there are references to the 1930s, and at one time Mozart can be seen working at a hammerklavier. Ida, the oldest girl, is given charge of her baby sister. When she grows inattentive, faceless creatures steal in and exchange the child for a simulacrum made of ice. Frantic, Ida climbs backward out her window and into the sky, tumbling through worlds of arbors and harbors, moonlight and lamplight, irrevocable loss and paradise regained. In the end the villainous goblins are revealed as babies, but in the author's view this makes them no less terrifying: What could...
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...