Word: franticness
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Current public interest in medicine, its techniques and advances, has trickled down even unto youngsters in the third and fourth grades, and I can daily produce a fistful of (usually frantic) letters requesting "all you known (sic) about Rh, blood plasma, hypothermia and 'that blue-baby' operation...
...counter the Anglo-French landing at Port Said, Nasser was considerably less explicit. "We may not yet be finished with the British and French," said he, "and I don't want to talk about strategy." By implication, however, he seemed to concede that the Egyptian army, after its frantic rush back from Sinai, simply wasn't able to mount a major effort at Port Said. "We were so deceived about British intentions," said he, "that one of the first things we did after the Israeli attack was to remove the brigade stationed at Port Said and send...
...fresh, amusing and satiric. Here and there the production embroidery is ingenious and witty. But too often it is obvious that beneath all the sauce piquante there is leftover meat or no meat at all; and in time there results an awful sameness of effect from so many frantic efforts to be different...
...Jones as the corrupt misruler of a jungle island we first meet him as he is fleeing from the wrath of his subjects, plunging into the jungle. The emperor bursts on stage, confident and arrogant, but already tired of running. The fear and disintegration seen in Jones on his frantic flight is echoed remorselessly by the ceaseless native drums, coming louder and closer and faster until, finally, Jones is shot. At this ponit, it might have been stronger and better balanced for O'Neill's abridger to end his play, but he leaves the original ending--light enters the stage...
...were soon noticed. Soviet security police and a new Hungarian force, called the "R troops," began picking up more young Hungarians. Anyone over 14 years of age was a potential victim. They were taken to the large Vermezoe subway station, where an army detail of 120 men drove off frantic parents. Below ground the youths, boys and girls, were herded into boxcars which were moved out in the dead of night. A train drawing 24 sealed wagons was seen heading east one morning...