Word: franticness
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Thus the state's Republicans were not exactly frantic when they learned that the Democrats were running a politically untested university professor in last week's special congressional election to fill the seat of Representative Hjalmar C. Nygaard, who died last summer. It would, the G.O.P. thought, be a snap...
...PRIVATE EAR and THE PUBLIC EYE, by Peter Shaffer, are clever, stylish, airy and bittersweet. These two one-acters explore the moods of love, antic and frantic. The players-Barry Foster, Geraldine McEwan, Brian Bedford and Moray Watson -are attuned like a fine string quartet...
...last-gasp weapon; if they fail to deter, and France is falling, then and only then are the bombers to be used to drag the attacker under with France. They cannot be used on routine, tit-for-tat bombing missions as the war games suggested. As for the frantic, 15-weapon battlefield broadside, so lavish a use of atomic weapons in so small an area (particularly on French soil) amounted to nothing more than an old-fashioned artillery barrage, reduced to absurdity. And why move into the area 15 minutes later? What would be left to attack? How could...
...pretty difficult to understand anybody," cheerfully admits David Silver, 20, of Grand Rapids, Mich., "but you sure get to know a lot of kids that way." "It's frantic, really," says Karen Dingle of Dexter, Mich. "The best way to use the beep line is just to ask for vital information such as 'How old are you?' and 'What do you look like?' and 'Are you a boy or a girl?' and 'What's your telephone number?' Once you have the telephone number, it's easier to talk over...
...America. It promises speed, it promises wealth, and, most significantly, it doesn't smell of Dollar Diplomay or Good Neighbor Policy. It exists today side by side with the democratic revolution, and shows no signs of abating in the immediate future. American diplomats are faced with a dedicated, often frantic, opponent. If they can do no more than call him "godless" or "bloodthirsty" their struggle will be short and painful...