Word: franticness
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...frantic rush to catapult its horse-and-buggy economy into the 20th century, Spain for six years has gone on a Soviet-like factory-building spree. But planning was poor; there was often a lack of raw materials, modern machines and technical know-how to keep the showplace plants running at planned capacity. Power also is short. Spain depends on hydroelectric power for three-quarters of its supply, and last year's drought held output to a low 13.75 billion kwh. Faced with such bottlenecks, the Pegaso factories have turned out only 4,000 heavy-duty trucks since...
...message. At 9:02 he called Davis by radiotelephone, granted an hour's stay. Six minutes later, Davis presented a writ of habeas corpus to the State Supreme Court. The answer came down at 10:42: petition denied. Attorney Davis tried again, this time with a frantic message to the Federal District Court. Judge Louis E. Goodman refused a further postponement. It was 10:50-ten minutes...
Unprepared for such ex-cathedra approval, New York Republicans gasped. Then they made frantic noises about other desirables, e.g., State Assembly Speaker Oswald Heck, Senate Majority Leader Walter Mahoney, and said it certainly would be nice if there could be an open nominating convention...
...kindly sorceress-grandmother. His former friends ostracize him for wanting to marry Ina--who, loving him, cannot marry because she fears churches. And so on, until our sprite meets a tragic end, dying on the forest floor under a full moon; and only the owls answer her lover's frantic calls...
...lecturer would do himself and his students a service if he mimeographed his remarks and let the student read them quietly in a library. In any case, the danger of the lecture as a means of pouring out quantities of information which the student tries to blot up by frantic notetaking is apparent. The listener becomes the passive object of one-way communication with a vocal text-book...