Word: franticness
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...yard in Detroit's Ecorse suburb. She was being punished for wandering away from home a few days before. Then, in midweek, her mother allowed the child her customary freedom. Mary skipped down the block to play with her friends. At dinnertime Mary's mother was frantic: Mary had disappeared...
...hostility. But when 17 Monarchists and Fascists helped him win a 132-93 vote of confidence in Italy's Senate, the whole nation rang with outrage. In the halls of Parliament, other Deputies mockingly greeted Christian Democrats with a stiff-armed Fascist salute. From the industrial north came frantic warnings that acceptance of Fascist support was sure to cost the Christian Democrats dear in next year's general election...
This might prove to be extreme, for not many section men could keep a single book exciting for eight weeks, even if the lecturer could. Yet the idea is an important one, and something could probably be done to relieve the sense of frantic pressure a freshman feels when handed a Humanities 3 or Social Sciences 5 reading list. Each of these courses is taught well, generally, and they are popular with students, but much of the time spent in sections is devoted to explaining the books which were hastily read if read...
...Frantic advocates of deep cuts are, not so strangely, very quiet on one sure way to reduce federal spending by millions of dollars. Federal pork-barrel appropriations for local projects are made under the time-honored system of "you vote for mine and I'll vote for yours." On this subject it appears that the word is "shhh...
...doctor: he had no idea what to do, and for three days more she felt that she was "shaking all over inside"; she had backache, dizziness, diarrhea, nausea and vomiting. During a month in the hospital she developed some new symptoms : spells of rapid, pounding heartbeat, periods of frantic overbreathing. Gradually the symptoms abated. But as soon as she went home and started light housekeeping, she had a sharp relapse and had to spend three more weeks...