Word: frantic
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...think that we were at that point getting a little frantic,” Gamble said. “We really wanted to come back, and we really wanted to get it in, and once you get into that mode—you just want to get the ball in the net, and sometimes it just doesn’t happen...
...Most Brits consider the Prime Minister's decision to follow George Bush into Iraq under "false pretenses" weak and mendacious rather than principled. Indeed, Blair's advisers admit they are worried that women, strong Labour supporters in the past, now see the Prime Minister as shifty. Hence, the frantic attempts to salve the wounds of Schoolgate Mums...
...guerrillas quickly retreated to the fourth floor, where the judges were being held. For the rest of the day the troops raked the front of the building with cannon and machine-gun fire. Inside, the guerrillas held frantic telephone talks in an attempt to demand publicity for their antigovernment views on TV and in newspapers. "We want the people of Colombia to know that the army has never given us a chance," said Otero. "All they've given us is hot lead." At 4 p.m. on Wednesday, the voice of Chief Justice Reyes was heard pleading, "For God's sake...
Private citizens also rushed to the rescue. Nowhere was the effort more frantic than in Miami and surrounding Dade County, home to an estimated 125,000 Colombian immigrants. Within hours after news of the disaster reached the city, the local Colombian consul general, Roberto Garca Archila, was swamped with aid offers. Less than 24 hours after the eruption, an Avianca Boeing 727 left Miami International Airport laden with privately donated medical supplies. Meanwhile, Spanish-speaking ham-radio operators in Miami were relaying messages from Colombia to the Florida consulate, where hundreds of anxious Colombians kept a vigil, hoping...
...Nation” has a beat cool enough to keep the song interesting, as does “Technologic,” in which a creepy artificial midget-voice repeats a string of ominous techno-words over an ever-changing and equally eerie backing. The latter recalls the frantic acceleration of “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger,” off of their masterpiece album “Discovery...