Word: franticness
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...plot has all the elements of an old-fashioned detective movie. A police officer is brutally gunned down and a frantic manhunt ensues. A long-haired laborer is convicted of the murder after his companion on the fateful night testifies against him. A filmmaker becomes obsessed with the case and produces a gritty documentary in which the prosecution's witnesses shed doubt on their own testimony. Ideally, there should be a happy cinematic ending, as the wrongly convicted man leaves prison after twelve years to resume his shattered life...
FIVE minutes after I turned my alarm clock off, I received a frantic phone call from my roommate, who urged me to get down to Harvard Hall right away. I rolled over and went back to sleep. Ten minutes later she called again, this time sounding really concerned. So I threw on a pair of sweats and dragged myself through the snow to Harvard Hall, cursing all the way and wondering why I became such a hockey freak...
...this time I had about two minutes left before the computer was going to cut me off and I was growing more and more frantic. I was so close to passing...and besides, no one was stupid enough to fail the QRR four times...
...Secretary of State James Baker is renowned for keeping his boss out of deep doo-doo and never stepping into any himself. But Baker's surefootedness was notably lacking last week. In his first frantic foreign foray as the nation's top diplomat, the up-close-and-personal touch that has served Baker so well with Congress and the press did not play very well. And a new accord by five Central American Presidents caught the Secretary uncharacteristically off- stride...
...stocks of just two years ago. The world's carry-over supplies have been reduced from 101 days of food consumption to 54 days, which is just about enough to keep the global food pipeline filled. "If the drought goes on," says Brown, "we could see a frantic scramble for supplies that would shake up the world economy...