Word: franticness
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...Frantic city fathers, merchants and clergymen called hand-wringing emergency town meetings. Manager Edwards appeared at many of the sessions, waving a pocket slide rule. He argued that Bayonne was living too high off the hog; e.g., it has 13.3 municipal employees per 1,000 residents, against a national average...
...across Kreuger's name. Being an uncommon crook, Kreuger did not crumble on Black Thursday. Indeed, he never defaulted on a dividend; but he was in the trap of paying dividends out of capital. He gambled millions in the market himself, and lost. Outwardly calm but inwardly frantic, he became the master forger of the age when, in 1931. in the inner fastnesses of his regal headquarters at the Match Palace in Stockholm, he forged with his own hand $143 million in Italian government bonds. By now, Kreuger's Depression-gored empire was bleeding cash too fast...
Your Dec. 24 Swiss sixth-grade problem* was subjected to the combined efforts of an education senior, a business administration grad student, a pre-med student, and an English lit. major. After about six hours we made a frantic call to our favorite Ph.D. candidate in math. He was kind enough to tell us that our solution was the right one. Next time, could you publish a fifth-grade problem...
...hustling Aggies had one obvious goal: stop S.M.U.'s big (6 ft. 8 in., 225 Ibs.), high-scoring Jim Krebs. They surged about the outsized center like a pack of frantic terriers to seal him off from teammates' passes. But at half time. S.M.U. Coach E. O. ("Doc") Hayes deftly changed offense, told his players to shoot from the outside to force the Aggie defense away from Krebs and then, "when Jim is free, feed...
Hated Man. Kadar's eager mouthing of Soviet military commands and his shameless stand on deportations have made him the most hated of Hungarians. Despite frantic appeals, he has been unable to enlist the support of those non-Communist elements which backed Nagy, and though reports of new coalitions are issued from his office weekly, the voice of the Peasant leaders, the Smallholders party and the Social Democrats are silent...