Word: franticness
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...This time "Big Ed" O'Bradovich, a 6-ft. 3-in., 255-lb. end, picked it off and lumbered to the Giant 14. Quarterback Wade scored again for the Bears. After that there was only desperation. Tittle threw, and the Bears intercepted-once, twice, the last on a frantic heave into the end zone with only five seconds left. The ball sailed into the arms of Chicago Safetyman Richie Petitbon. Final score: Bears 14, Giants...
When a Lampyris female does not find a mate promptly, says Dr. Schaller, she begins to wag her abdomen. As time passes, her little belly dance becomes more frantic. Dr. Schaller rigged his dummies for vigorous wagging, and they had outstanding success in attracting mates. Lampyris noctiluca, he is convinced, has a highly selective optical system for locating willing females...
Flat Refusal. Meanwhile, a frantic effort was made to get Rules Committee Democrats back to Washington. Among those absent was Missouri Liberal Rich ard Boiling, 47, who was off on one of the smaller, more remote Virgin Islands. The White House contacted the Governor of the Virgin Islands, who sent a plane after Boiling. But Boiling, enjoying his Christmas in the sun, refused to leave. The plane took off, radioed Boiling's words back to St. Thomas, and was ordered to land and try again. Boiling remained adamant...
...disorderly conduct in four states, was racing south from Los Angeles in a Chevrolet station wagon purchased with $1,000 of the ransom money. As he drove, his fears that capture was inevitable and flight was foolish mounted to terror. In San Juan Capistrano, Irwin stopped, put in a frantic call to his younger brother James, 41, a school purchasing agent, at his home in Imperial Beach, only twelve miles from the Mexican border. The two had not seen each other for several months. But now, said John, it was urgent that they talk privately...
Frank Jr. started walking toward home, hiding when cars came by for fear that the kidnapers might have changed their minds and come back for him. In one car was his frantic father, out cruising the area looking for him. Finally, Frank reached the elegant Bel Air district and hailed one of the private patrol cars that the community maintains. To smuggle him past the crowd of reporters, Patrolman George C. Jones popped him into the car's trunk and proudly delivered him to his waiting mother and father...