Word: franticness
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...becomes more and more frantic, a band of folk musicians bursts in and strikes a chord of wild merriment. A fifty-minute rollercoaster ride then takes the viewer flying through a fantastic world of organic self-renewal and disintegration...
...schoolchildren, the first day of summer arrives with agonizing tardiness, and the last with frantic haste; those bordered out by these two are filled with erratic dalliances. There may be haphazard tree forts one week and trips to the waterslides the next, or there may be sandcastles first and then bumper cars. There may be nothing but hours of television. The common theme is the pointlessness of it all—the unequalled luxury of gorging on endless unclaimed hours...
...greater danger in the Craig scandal is that it could further alienate the party's social conservative base, said Stephen Schneck, head of the politics department at Catholic University in Washington. "Republican leaders are frantic, fearing a cataclysmic collapse of the perceived moral high ground vis-?-vis the Democrats among Evangelicals and Catholics - not only among swing voters, but among the base," said Schneck...
...regiomontanos, as Monterrey residents are known, crowded into the upscale bistros and cafés of San Pedro. Then the rumors began circulating on cell phones and BlackBerrys: gunfights had broken out again in local restaurants and nightclubs. Almost immediately the cafés emptied, and the streets were clogged with frantic regiomontanos racing in their Lexuses and BMWs to save their kids from the cross fire...
...many Americans, the Jan. 20 murder of four U.S. soldiers on a deserted road in southern Iraq might sound similar to countless other tragedies in a bloody, brutal war. There was a firefight, which killed another American; a brazen abduction; then a frantic chase leading to a heartless end. And yet from the start, the deaths of the five Americans were also shrouded in mystery. The attack took place in Karbala, a Shi'ite holy city of roughly 1 million people that had been one of the safest in Iraq for U.S. troops. It happened in plain sight of Iraqi...