Word: frantically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russians wanted to create an exciting diversion, they did their work well. Twenty Soviet Tommy-gunners set up a roadblock in the British sector. Up wheeled British armored vehicles, backed by 100 troopers, and off moved the Russians. Two little American girls wandered off and 300 soldiers spent six frantic hours finding them. "We just got on a bus," explained one of the tots casually...
...Wasn't It Fun?" Instantly the fight became a free-for-all. Mme. Thorez (Jeannette Vermeerseh) screamed. Thorez, dabbing his bloody face with a handkerchief, tried to get up. His friends yelled "Agent provocateur!'' and "Hold him!" at Laurent; they attacked the group of flyers. A frantic Russian shouted "Nyet! Nyet!" A French major who tried to restore calm was tossed out into the gutter. Ambassador Bogomolov, safe in a corner, roared with laughter...
Ferreting through the hard pressed staffs of Boston hospitals for a reserve supply of pulse-quickeners in nurse's garb, Summer J. Chertok '48 and Frederic M. Fialkow '51, co-chairmen of the PBH blood committee, issued a frantic plea to donors last night to keep "hands-off" policy with the nurses in the blood drive starting Thursday, March...
...only thorough-going solution seems to be the general examination, but here again we have the cramming, frantic last minute marshalling of seattered, half-forgotten facts, and a few hours of furious exam writing. The oral exam would seem to obviate this, but, having given a man sixteen courses in four years, it is a little hard to admit that you haven't really taught him very much, and, consequently, the oral examiners have to set their sights fairly low if they don't intend to flunk out a large number of students...
Last week, pleased by one accomplishment but alarmed by the other, the New Republic was shaken by another surge of frantic economizing. Editor Michael Straight, whose family has footed the New Republic's steady deficit since 1914, had given up the dream of a slick-paper product with lavish displays of half-tones, big names and special art work. Gone, in the undertow of the economy wave, was a flock of staffers. The staff was still bigger than in pre-Wallace days, but the survivors had that worried "who's next" look. The trouble was that the magazine...