Word: franticness
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...Krasovsky gave a summary of scientific information that Soviet space shots have gathered so far. The Russians also showed a 25-minute movie of the behavior of animals sent aloft in rockets. Most fascinating shot, taken inside a nose cone: a rat, in a condition of weightlessness, performing a frantic dance...
...league ground-gaining record by a fabulous 381 yds. And even the lowly Los Angeles Rams, at the bottom of the Western Conference, can offer Halfback Ollie Matson, 29, whose stride is rated the most beautiful in football, a smooth flow of power that whisks him through the frantic flurry of broken-field blocks and tackles with deceptive ease. On a team that is going nowhere, Matson has broken loose so often that he averages 5.4 yds. per carry...
...disturbed by the closeness of the audience that she never returned. Rarely used in recent years, the little theater, with its gilt chairs, roll-down curtain (a Nile landscape) and flaming torches, seemed an ideal setting for Rameau's wispily amusing farce about an old-maidish nymph in frantic pursuit of Jupiter's favors...
...women patients in ward 37 at New York's St. Lawrence State Hospital, overlooking the seaway then abuilding, were all agitated and ill at ease, and one was frantic. A housemaid from Alabama by way of Chicago, she rushed up to the nurse supervisor, shouting: "Mrs. Holmes has gone crazy-crazier than we are-she won't lock the door!" As a matter of fact, Attendant Irene Holmes was doing just what the doctor ordered. First, the doors of individual wards, then of whole buildings, were being unlocked and left unlocked for lengthening periods up to twelve hours...
...country maid, but flies straight to the inmost circle of society, where the crustiest tycoons really do unbend, all wives are beautiful, and well-tailored bohemians are welcome. In a sense, he adores the lions and tigresses of a world often so polite that it is rude, and so frantic that it is bored...