Word: frantically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was a lot of reality, too, they said. Frantic Democratic candidates were phoning in: "What's the use of even having an election...
Direction committees of France's three major parties scurried into conference. Burly Communist Leader Jacques Duclos made a frantic appeal to reluctant Socialists for left-wing unity. Leaders of the M.R.P., which stood to lose the most members to the new Gaullist party, hastened to make further changes in the constitution to appease waverers. Then the Assembly adopted the draft constitution on its first reading. Now it was up to the people...
...keep the story sewed up, Pou drove to Lexington, Miss., manned Prosecutor Barrett's telephone during his absence. When frantic newsmen telephoned for details from the West Coast, New York and other parts of the U.S., he purred that the prosecutor would be "back tomorrow" and would be glad to talk with them then. At week's end, the Morning Star was still holding a dollar for its tipster. He had not left his name...
...Frantic Fractions. It is impossible for correspondents to get permission to move freely in Zone B. But I managed to get a pass to drive from Trieste to Pola, which a small British detachment occupies. The Yugoslavs have marked off one highway as a supply route for the British. Allied vehicles are not allowed to stop at any point, and are fired on if they leave the road...
...average citizen didn't seem to care much, one way or another, about all these manifestations, just so he went somewhere. By last week-after months of frantic scheming-millions were vacationing. Long-shuttered estates of the rich were being reopened at Southampton, Easthampton and Newport. New England resorts and beach hotels from Bar Harbor to Sea Island were awash with guests. Most desk clerks were not discussing reservations-except for the summer...