Word: frantically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Flat Refusal. Meanwhile, a frantic effort was made to get Rules Committee Democrats back to Washington. Among those absent was Missouri Liberal Rich ard Boiling, 47, who was off on one of the smaller, more remote Virgin Islands. The White House contacted the Governor of the Virgin Islands, who sent a plane after Boiling. But Boiling, enjoying his Christmas in the sun, refused to leave. The plane took off, radioed Boiling's words back to St. Thomas, and was ordered to land and try again. Boiling remained adamant...
...disorderly conduct in four states, was racing south from Los Angeles in a Chevrolet station wagon purchased with $1,000 of the ransom money. As he drove, his fears that capture was inevitable and flight was foolish mounted to terror. In San Juan Capistrano, Irwin stopped, put in a frantic call to his younger brother James, 41, a school purchasing agent, at his home in Imperial Beach, only twelve miles from the Mexican border. The two had not seen each other for several months. But now, said John, it was urgent that they talk privately...
Frank Jr. started walking toward home, hiding when cars came by for fear that the kidnapers might have changed their minds and come back for him. In one car was his frantic father, out cruising the area looking for him. Finally, Frank reached the elegant Bel Air district and hailed one of the private patrol cars that the community maintains. To smuggle him past the crowd of reporters, Patrolman George C. Jones popped him into the car's trunk and proudly delivered him to his waiting mother and father...
...frantic aftermath of the assassination, Texas, Dallas and federal authorities rushed to assemble and sift through every detail surrounding the event. But all those overlapping efforts will become secondary. Last week President Johnson named a high-level commission to handle the official investigation. Members: Chief Justice Earl Warren (chairman), Georgia's Democratic Senator Richard B. Russell, Kentucky's Republican Senator John Sherman Cooper, Louisiana's Democratic Congressman Hale Boggs, Michigan's Republican Congressman Gerald Ford, ex-CIA Chief Allen W. Dulles, and onetime Presidential Disarmament Adviser John J. McCloy. The President's instructions...
Burgess leads the reader skillfully through the cycle. His antihero, a nonentity named Foxe, halfheartedly shovels history at fifth formers in the first phase. During Interphase, he is a political prisoner and then a refugee, frantic to eat and not be eaten (cannibalism is part of the chaotic interregnum). In the third phase, Foxe enlists in an army whose sole function, it turns out, is to relieve the population pressure by annihilating another army-and itself...