Word: franticness
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...Midway. He watched the carriers easily brush off first retaliatory attacks by land-based Marine and Army planes. Then: "A lookout screamed 'Hell-divers!' I looked up to see three black enemy planes plummeting toward our ship. Some of our machine guns managed to fire a few frantic bursts at them, but it was too late. The plump silhouettes of the American 'Dauntless' dive bombers quickly grew larger, and then a number of black objects suddenly floated eerily from their wings. Bombs! Down they came straight toward me. I fell intuitively to the deck and crawled...
...minutes he was back in line buying a ticket to fish the trout pond at the Milwaukee Sentinel's sport show. He paid his money all right-in seven days Jerry shelled out about $50-but he snagged so many fish that he drove the trout-pond operators frantic...
Comings & Goings. CBS went to color for its hour-long production of Stage Door. As on Broadway, the action was confined largely to an actresses' boarding house, and the TV cameras had to hop to keep up with the frantic comings and goings of girls, guys and assorted spear-carriers. The play's moral-that the legitimate theater is devoted to the true and beautiful and Hollywood to the cheap and shoddy-is not only a dubious one (especially in the light of this year's Broadway scatology), but seemed to come with poor grace from television...
...also been loved by Michael's father, George. Now such a situation would, without doubt, wreak confusion in even the most rational of families. When you consider, then, that at least two of Cocteau's characters are not only irrational but neurotic, you may get some idea of the frantic tone of this movie...
...reports of this and other strikes came into Salt Lake City, uranium's Wall Street, brokers were happily riding the crest of a new boom in trading, the biggest rush since last May's frantic buying of penny stocks. The boom then was founded on paper claims and hope; now the penny-stock companies are merging, or being taken over by companies with enough capital to start mining. At least 20 of the nation's biggest mining companies, e.g.. Phelps Dodge, Anaconda Copper, Climax Molybdenum and Vanadium Corp. of America, were looking over companies with promising...