Word: franticness
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...Crimson opened the second half with a 16-point scoring outburst, during which the Redmen were able to score only one free throw. The frantic UMass squad fouled heavily in its efforts to curb the Crimson, but the varsity continued to strengthen its lead. Donohue and Leo LaBlanc came near to blows after both had dived for the ball with four minutes remaining in the game...
...naturally, the season for strange visions-and Sputniks 1 and 11 made them more natural. From virtually every region in the U.S. last week poured frantic reports of U.F.O.s-unidentified flying objects. This time, as the U.S. Air Defense Command tabulated reports (no fewer than 128), the sightings from preachers, military personnel, engineers and just plain folks were not restricted simply to flying saucers. The pronouncements seemed to shape into a sort of celestial dinner pail: the objects resembled eggs, meat platters, pears-and, for dessert, ice cream cones and cigars. ¶In the Levelland area of Texas, at least seven...
...Lucille took her lumps with undiminished zest and even worked her putty face through one funny bit in which she and Desi, meeting for the first time in a Havana night club, swapped pitter-pats in a love duet on the bongo drums. The messages between them grew more frantic, and after beating out an abandoned rhythmic burst, Lucy shrieked in astonished self-admonition: "What am I saying...
Gold Dollar bucketed into the glare of the arena. For eight frantic seconds the wild-eyed animal whipped into impossible contortions, trying to unseat its bareback rider. But Shoulders stuck like hide. When the whistle blew, he slid easily to the tanbark, looking suddenly unnatural, only a man walking on his own two legs...
...wrote back, "Wow, am I!" Anyhow, note followed hot note and Miss Jomes began thinking of turning in her steam iron for a marriage manual. Until one day tragedy struck. x428Fy's shirts arrived as usual, but when Miss Jomes turned to the slot she found it sewn-up. Frantic, she tried to rip it open. No luck. She could feel something thin inside, but she couldn't get to it. And that's how it's been ever since...