Word: franticness
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...foreground are the Italian bolidi-Alfa-Romeos, Ferraris, Maseratis-here and there a Mercedes and a Gordini; much elegant metal and, no doubt, to fanciers of horsepower, a sight prettier than slow old Europe. The racing scenes, in fact, are among the most frantic ever filmed. As the little red devils scream the curves and hellbat the straightaway, nose to rump of the car ahead, hot and light on the track as grits in a frying pan, the customer sits spang on the front axle-and sweats. Once in a while Kirk Douglas climbs out of his Ferrari and into...
...chosen companions remained the ostlers, potboys, horse jockeys, moneylenders, pawnbrokers, punks and pugilists who often served as his models. They shared Morland's love of gin and practical jokes. Once Morland stuffed the chairs of a public house with mackerel, returned with his cronies to complain to the frantic landlord of the frightful stench...
...accident. Washington's army commandant, General Christopher C. Augur, sent patrols out helter-skelter and waited for orders from his chief, Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. With another Cabinet member, Stanton hurried from the bedside of Seward to the tailor's house and set up a frantic headquarters there. While the President lay bleeding in a hall bedroom and Mrs. Lincoln screamed and wept in the front parlor, Stanton "convened a special court of inquiry . . . issued orders, wrote messages . . . summoned high personages . . . and took the reins of government...
...strike spread. Despite threats and promises, and the pleas of frantic Vorkuta officials, the revolt lasted ten days. In almost every camp the strikers maintained perfect discipline, and there was amazing unity among the prisoners, regardless of nationality. When prisoners chased officials from one camp, an officer gave the order to shoot. Two prisoners were killed, but there was no general riot...
...Despite frantic appeals for instructions, Moscow was mysteriously silent for several days before word arrived that Deputy Minister of the Interior Maslennikov was on his way to Vorkuta by plane. The news sent a chill of fear through both the prisoners and guards. Strikers drafted eleven demands to present to him. At the first camp he visited, Maslennikov made a "fatherly" speech and promised a few concessions: unlocked barracks, more letters and a few rubles' pay. One by one the camps returned to work until finally there were only a few holdouts. At 10 a.m. on July...