Word: franticized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...means by this, but for months after Oliver Stone's "JFK" came out, Nick refused to sit by the windows in restaurants and even tried to avoid going outside. "What if they see us?" he would ask, and when I asked him who "they" were, he would become frantic: "Don't be so stupid!" he'd scream in reply. His fear of the woman through the fire-door seemed somehow connected to this type of exaggerated paranoia...
...court order five years ago, barring Tanner from smoking in Elysa's presence. But Tanner's puffing -- and Masone's huffing -- continued. Finally, after Elysa had an asthma attack this month, a doctor said the child would end up in an emergency room if things ! didn't change. Frantic, Masone went back to court. Last week, in a ground- breaking decision, a county judge gave temporary custody of Elysa to Masone's mother, ruling that Tanner's smoking was endangering her daughter's health...
...trickle, building to a stream and then a veritable tsunami: frantic students brandishing papers and staplers and running desperately toward the Core office at 38 Kirkland Street...
...disease, or at least Part-timer's ("Did I sing the ballad yet? Was it wonderful?"). She also purports to worry about sullying her "newfound stature." When her backup trio, "the politically correct Harlettes," starts a striptease in the home of the world-famed Christmas show, Bette goes frantic: "Girls, this is Radio City! They have a manger backstage...
...real bad here," the tugboat pilot said in a frantic radio message. "There's a train that ran off the track into the water, and there's lots of people that need help, and there's a fire. Hurry and get out here, Coast Guard. I'm going to try to help some of them." Four other cars remained on the bridge, including one that dangled precariously over the edge...