Word: franticness
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...more ridiculous such expeditions involved a Muskie walking tour of the Manchester restaurants at lunch hour. First stop was a small, dingy diner where Muskie greeted a handful of eaters who were engaging in a frantic last minute effort to switch the fork from the right hand in time to meet the extended handshake of the Maine Senator. After cramming obtrusively into the small diner, the hoards of reporters followed the Senator to the pizza parlor havens where, much to the delight of the eager photographers, Muskie ate a piece of pizza. (All credit for foresight goes...
Leverett then initiated a frantic press, but Runyan and Luckner came through with clutch ball handling and key foul shots to give the 'Cliffe a 45-38 victory...
FULL OF Fitzgerald's frantic and self-mocking pleas for money, many of the letters are reminiscent of the story "Financing Finnegan" about an eccentric author's agent and editor who conspire to keep him financial alive as he plans his escapades. The story was written in fun, partly to thank Perkins and his agent Harold Ober, but behind it there is the dead seriousness of the debt that he owed then both. In his very first letter, telling Perkins about the novel which ultimately became This Side of Paradise. Fitzgerald seems to be running a race. First...
Despite their miserable first period, the Crimson did not play badly. The Crimson outshot Brown 32-24, and Brown's late rally was more a product of penalties and a frantic Brown effort than a Harvard lapse...
...range. Suddenly they spot a plane, an American plane. It drops down for a look at the junk and finds also a 16-foot speedboat with shark's teeth painted on the bow. The pilot turns and starts in for a strafing run, averted only by the frantic waving of the three by five foot American flag Arnheiter had placed aboard the speedboat to help ensnare communists. "Please God," prays one of the crewmen aloud, "please don't let them open up with those miniguns. They'll grease us right out of the water with 6000 rounds a minute...