Word: franticness
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...After this elegant bow to the Baroque a selection from Berlioz' Damnation of Faust did not fare so well. The attacks were often uncertain, and the singers almost shouted some of the high notes. A lack of preparation was apparent in some nearly disastrous mistakes and the frantic tempo...
...girls he left behind cooled their heels in a spacious villa in the hills behind Rabat. Fourteen third-stringers had been sent back to their families, free to look for other mates if they chose. On Corsica, meanwhile, Ben Youssef had to move out of the house of the frantic governor and install himself in a hotel before moving on, probably to a resort in the French Pyrenees. There, the broad-minded French indicated, the 26 remaining concubines will be allowed to rejoin the bereft ex-Sultan. "We are adhering to our principles," explained a Quai d'Orsay spokesman...
...Grandma, what frantic eyes you have," said Red Riding Hood. "The better to dig you with, my dear." said the wolf. "And Grandma," said Red. "what a long nose you have." "Yeah." said the wolf, "it's a gasser." "And Grandma," said Red, "your ears are the most, to say the least." "How you do come on." said the wolf. "I know my ears aren't the greatest, but what're ya gonna do? Let's just say somebody goofed...
Recently, Ralph, as TIME'S Mexico City bureau chiefs have invariably called him, made his first trip to Manhattan. On his return to more serene surroundings, he jotted down and sent along his impressions of his somewhat frantic visit. Wrote Delgado...
...rangers sent out a call for volunteers. Among the first to be recruited were 27 men from the New Tribes Mission "boot camp" at Fouts Springs, 15 miles to the south. It was frantic, sweaty work, but in a few hours the wind was dropping, and the fire seemed to be sealed off and under control. Then a spark jumped the fire lines and set off a spot blaze in Grindstone Canyon, a short distance away...