Word: franticness
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Swell of Protest. Many Protestant leaders across the land reacted with immediate cries of protest. The sharpest words fired at Baptist Harry Truman came from Dr. J. M. Dawson, executive secretary of the Baptist Public Affairs Committee. "It is perhaps a frantic bid for holding machine-ridden big cities in the approaching hot Presidential race," he said. "It is a deplorable resort to expediency,, which utterly disregards our historical constitutional American system of separation of church and state." Truman's pastor, the Rev. Edward Hughes Pruden, said in a sermon (which the President did not hear) that...
...progressively into a romantic dreamland of Southern lady hood. Stanley, her brother-in-law, heaves her off the tightrope of sanity after he hears of a previous stage of her illness, a sexual frenzy that, as it is described in hearsay, seems to have been not nymphomania but the frantic efforts of a schizoid to stay consciously alive. Vivien Leigh's performance is as much a tour de force as was Williams' creation of the role...
...threw their feet in the air and smacked the floor, as though a giant hand had pulled the stage from under them. In Galté Parisienne, even the great Alexandra Danilova and' Choreographer-Dancer Leonide Massine went down: two spills for Danilova, one for Massine. In the wings, frantic Ballet Master Frederic Franklin told his dancers: "Go slow . . . Don't listen to the music, just go on when I tell you." The critic of the Detroit Times described the usually bouncy exits as like "the pussyfooting lope one takes when, trying to avoid "waking the baby...
Slowly, then faster & faster as the Dodgers faltered, the Giants closed the gap, winning 37 of their last 44 games, tied the Dodgers at season's end and forced a playoff. During that frantic final week, Durocher repeated persistently: "Don't interview me. I'm not doing a thing. It's my players who are doing the work. Talk with all of them; they're a great bunch. It's a privilege to manage them." While Durocher kept mum, the Giants won the first playoff game, lost the second, and trailed...
...most frantic finish in the National League since the Dodgers overhauled the Cardinals in 1946 and were beaten out of the pennant in a postseason playoff. The Giants, rated as red-hot contenders in spring training, had bumbled into an eleven-game losing streak at the beginning of the season, could never seem to get going again. But in mid-August, behind the standout pitching of Sal Maglie and Larry Jansen, they had started to move, and won a phenomenal 37 of their last 44 games. With the pressure on, the Dodgers dropped five of their last eight games...