Word: franticness
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Sometimes the mathematics involved becomes fantastically complicated. Then Los Alamos broadcasts a frantic call for help, swamping with its rush-rush problems all the great computing machines...
...Chinese who paid soon received new demands and new threats. To the small merchants who received them, some of the requests were huge. A group of Honolulu businessmen with relatives in the Kwangtung village of Bucktoi got a frantic request for $20,000. Another Honolulu Chinese, who sent his father $3,000, was immediately asked for $5,000. He sent it, and got a request for $20,000. By that time he was broke...
Asia, is faced with steering the lifeboats and supervising the disaster teams. The Moslem world, frantic to shake off oppression and poverty that it ascribes solely (and not altogether correctly) to Western exploitation, has frequently responded with a fanatical and irresponsible nationalism. That way is apt to lead to continued poverty, chaos and neutralism at the least, to ultimate capture by Communism at the worst...
...rigged out in a red & white striped jersey and brown corduroy trousers. Sinbad was finally coaxed to pull the cord parting the curtains which covered the mounted Bushman. While flashbulbs popped, little Sinbad took one look at the glowering giant, grabbed his trainer's legs and tried his frantic best to tuck his head between them...
...hours later, another nurse's aid noticed that Baby Lyons' crib was empty. There was a frantic search of the hospital and grounds, police and dogs were called in, 2,000 townspeople searched alleys, trash cans, cisterns, dumps, swamps and dunes. One theory: Baby Lyons might have been kidnaped by an unbalanced, childless woman with a yearning for children.* The Michigan City hope: that such a person will give herself away by proudly showing off "my new baby...