Word: frantically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thick a man could hardly see ten feet. But in their foxholes north of Bastogne the paratroopers heard Germans talking in the woods ahead. They also heard snapping branches and clanking treads. The forward artillery observer sent a frantic call to the rear: "Serenade, serenade-request all additional artillery...
...London, last week, one of the strangest of living politicians, Count Michael Karolyi, Tolstoyan, Socialist and Hungarian nobleman, was closely noting his country's confused and frantic efforts to break with Germany...
...minutes, returned to find him gone. They spotted him running down the street, gave chase. After two and a half blocks a pedestrian, thinking the Vice President a fugitive, grabbed him. The police guard was doubled, but Wallace soon started running again, easily beat his four frantic, panting guards on a five-block race down crowded Broadway to the Hotel Astor. Explained Wallace: "I just had to get some exercise...
Roared the Democrats: "THE ELEPHANT DOES FORGET" (its isolationist statements, the Hoover depression). Dewey is unpopular with his own party. Dewey is full of confused contradictions in his frantic effort to keep up with public opinion...
...national debt, now more than 650 billion lire, is still soaring. Bank notes in circulation have doubled since the Allied invasion, now stand at the fantastic high of 260 billion lire. The Allied currency contributed only a small part to this increase, which mainly came from the frantic efforts of the Badoglio-through-Bonomi Governments to keep afloat. With a Government budget of 100 billion lire and revenue of 20 billion, little more than enough to pay the interest on the national debt, the Italians have had to work the printing presses overtime...