Word: franticness
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...week's end, after five days of frantic police investigation, only one thing about the robbery was really clear: Rope's drugstore had served the most expensive coffee in history...
Exorcists & Psychiatrists. While sticking up for the existence of demonic possession, the authors readily concede that many people reportedly "possessed by the Devil" probably belong in the psychiatrist's consulting room, not the chapel. The frantic witch burnings of the 16th century, furthermore, in which Protestants and Catholics participated with equal zest, are explained in Satan largely as the products of their times. This heyday of witch burnings, black Masses (i.e., profane renderings of the Catholic Mass) and Devil worship, writes Belgian Scholar Emile Brouette, represented "the dawn of the false empire of Satan in a Europe gripped...
...probably will. The snow is transmuted now, no longer white and crystaline but tough and tenacious, resistant to rain and sunlight alike. It will lie dormant, waiting for that last clear shot at the springs of a passing car. And the frantic garagemen will push ahead with their car removal, racing the phantom plows, never realizing for a minute that God will take care of the snow...
Carter is lavish with words because he is lavish with everything. For nearly half a century, he has been building a glittering legend of showmanship, generosity, boisterousness and buffoonery. The legend lives and grows in a typhoon of frantic activity that sweeps everything before it - including Carter himself. This pays off for both Carter and Fort Worth. But his old friends know a deeper reason. Whether he is giving away hats, tracts of land, scholarships, or popcorn & peanuts at his 900-acre Shady Oak Farm, his friends see a poor boy acting out his dreams...
...while the specter of General Hershey, once seen lurking behind every diploma, is forgotten. Alternate routes to New York and the relative merits of Ford convertibles occupy the time and thought formerly allotted bloody ridges and cabinet crises. Politics are lost in a profusion of baseball scoresheets, and the frantic maneuverings of vote-seekers eclipsed by candidates for the Hall of Fame...