Word: franticness
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After saying little publicly about Condit for a month, the Levys are now frantic. They believe investigators, obliged to follow special procedures when dealing with a member of Congress (will that be one pair of kid gloves or two?), may not have pressed Condit sufficiently. The police investigators keep telling the Levys to let them handle everything and not to interfere. But no longer. Susan Levy says, "They've been too slow on the uptake. They should have searched Condit's house." Feeling "powerless," the couple hired a Washington lawyer last Friday. "We're not used to playing with...
That night Fernandes visited the campus' six dormitories. At each, students met her by the hundreds. "They were yelling. They were arguing. They were crying," she says. They hurled frantic questions. Was a murderer among them? Was she going to cancel any classes? Would the school close down? After each answer, interpreters shouted her ASL into speech for the hard-of-hearing who did not sign; others pressed her words tactilely into the hands of the deaf and blind. At one dorm the oversize crowd spilled outside, and Fernandes signed in the halo of a sidewalk light, her audience spread...
...G.O.P. was sorely misinformed. Last Monday night on the Senate floor, during a long debate about tax cuts, Jeffords told Olympia Snowe that he was seriously considering switching. Snowe placed a frantic call to White House chief of staff Andrew Card, but Card had already gone home. Snowe left a message saying the matter was "sensitive and urgent." She tried Card again in the morning, but his aides said he wouldn't be available until noon. Interrupt him now, Snowe demanded, "even if he's in with the President." Card phoned back minutes later, and the White House finally knew...
...Ashcroft and the Second Amendment John Ashcroft's letter to the National Rifle Association saying that the Constitution protects individual gun ownership rights prompted a frantic call from a U.S. Attorney's office in Texas to Department of Justice headquarters at 10th & Pennsylvania. The Attorney General's position isn't in sync with court rulings over the last six decades, including a 1939 Supreme Court decision, holding that the Second Amendment right applies to the states, rather than individuals...
...wondered what the sex meant, anyway. Frantic, pointless activity. The rest of us sometimes feel that way about the news. We have indulged too long in promiscuities of information. They have made us tired. Dr. Seuss once wrote something called "The Sleep Book." It starts: "The news just came in from the Castle of Keck/ that a very small bug by the name of Van Vleck/ is snoring so loud you can look down his neck./ This may not seem very important, I know,/ but it is, so I'm bothering telling you so." There ensued pages and pages...