Word: franticness
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...frantic days began when Kennedy flew to Boston to attend a meeting of Harvard Board of Overseers. Virtually mobbed by students in the Yard, Kennedy quipped: "I am here to go over your grades with Dr. Pusey, and I'll protect your interests." In a few hours he was off to New York, and the morning after, to Washington for conferences. Arriving in Palm Beach with his brother-in-law Peter Lawford and Democratic National Committee Moneybags Matt McCloskey, Kennedy bored into the myriad details that he had to get out of the way by Jan. 20: more conferences...
...impatiently to move in. Last week 55 Congressmen-elect drew lots for new office suites (Pennsylvania Republican Dick Schweiker, drawing Lot No. 55, found there was no more space available, will have to wait until an office can be found). The quest for jobs on the Hill was becoming frantic. Surprisingly, many of the most anxious Capitol job seekers were Democrats: with 45 new Republican representatives, and only 18 new Democrats, a few secretaries of outgoing Democratic Congressmen were wringing their hands. The U.S. Employment Service's Capitol Hill office reported that, out of some 400 applications received, fewer...
...cattle ranchers, pin-striped nouveaux riches. On a raised runway in the middle of the barn, a professional auctioneer commanded all attention. At the rate of 72 a day-one every seven minutes during three sessions daily-the auctioneer sold new 1961 autos from Europe and Detroit. In the frantic bidding, a Fiat went for $7,000, a Ford station wagon for $15,000, a Buick for $23,000, a Cadillac for an incredible $50,000. When the ten-day auction ended, 617 cars had been sold, about $10 million had changed hands, and the government of Arturo Frondizi...
...then advanced, firing submachine guns from the hip. Explained the paratroop colonel: "My men have been fighting the rebels in the Aurés Mountains. They are amazed to come up against the very same rebel flag in the heart of Algiers." As the guns spoke and Moslems died, frantic European women on nearby balconies screamed encouragement to the paratroops: "Kill them! Kill them...
...reader can be sure that when she tells of making a frantic telephone call to "Clemmie," it will be Mrs. Winston Churchill who picks up the receiver, while "Duckling" is Winston himself, and "Wormwood" is none other than General Charles de Gaulle.* "Duff," of course, is Lady Diana's husband, who died as Lord Norwich in 1954 but who, during the period of the book, was plain Mr. Alfred Duff Cooper, successively army lieutenant, Minister of Information, civilian defense chief in Southeast Asia, liaison man in North Africa and, finally, Ambassador to France, writing the Treaty of Dunkirk...