Word: frantically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sooner was the session convened than members of the opposition began shouting for the Finance Minister to discuss the budget. The Diet recessed four minutes later, and Izumiyama's frantic colleagues tried to revive him: they drove him home in an open car, then back again; finally they took him to the Diet medical room, where stimulants were injected. But Izumiyama was out cold...
...inflation will, it had sneaked up unbeknownst. All of a sudden, with a rule change here, a new technique there, games that used to be well-balanced and even-paced had become frantic high-scoring battles. Judging by attendance, and audience enthusiasm, the crowds liked it that way. But here & there a small voice could be heard-asking what had happened to football, hockey and basketball...
...frantic '403, fences had been shortened to make the home run cheaper; and in a good many other games, the rules had been changed to accent the offense. In the '303 many a final basketball score was 34-30 or thereabouts. In Madison Square Garden fortnight ago, a college quintet, Ohio's Bowling Green, scored 97 points, the highest in the Garden's history. No less than four professional basketball teams had scored 100 or more points this season only to lose the game...
Short-tempered, sweating boatmen struggled to push their sampans and junks close to the fantail of the SS Kiangya, Chinese coastal steamer loading last week at Shanghai for Ningpo. From the cramped decks of the small boats on to the steamer's overhang clambered frantic, ticketless Shanghailanders trying to flee the frightened city. Others clogged the wharves, straining to catch tickets thrown them from portholes by friends already aboard...
Bravo! would seem like apt material for a neat Ferber & Kaufman blend of oil & vinegar. The play does have touches of warmth and wit, but most of it is a purely mechanical sponging of the emotions, or a frantic clutching at comic and dramatic straws. The characters are too often mere plushy stage furniture, exploited rather than explored. Only Refugee Actress Darvas (wife of famed Hungarian Playwright Ferenc Molnar) possesses real rather than synthetic dignity and charm...