Word: franticness
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...rhododendron bushes, plus 100-odd acres of rich farm land, on Long Island. It was a barter deal, reported the New York Times. Short on cash, Zog had plunked down "a bucket of diamonds and rubies" in a royal exchange. The King's spokesmen hastily sent out frantic denials. The King, they insisted, had paid an undisclosed sum in the ordinary way, by check. But the deal was closed, and the local Nassau Daily Review-Star gave its new neighbor a friendly editorial: "Welcome, Farmer King Zog. While Nassau County farmers have been selling their land to live like...
...year ago Russia signed a five-year trade pact with its puppet, Czechoslovakia, sharply boosting the Czechs' already huge tribute (mostly heavy machinery) to Russia. Early this year Russia upped the ante again. The Czech economy could not take it. Last week, in a frantic effort to meet Moscow's demands, the Czech Communist regime was shaken up. The Czech Communist Party 1) abolished its governing four-man secretariat, shifted its job to a Soviet-style Politburo and Orgburo; 2) switched Moscow-trained Rudolf Slansky from his top post as party general secretary to Vice Premier, which...
Twenty-four hours later, the druggist was stricken again, this time less severely. The druggist's wife came down with the same symptoms; so did his three children. More patients fell ill. Dr. Risser got six frantic calls in one day. By mid-August, Bonham was in the grip of an epidemic. The cases were all the same: two swift, polio-like attacks followed by rapid recovery. Dr. Risser, a former Army epidemiologist, consulted his medical books, wrote the U.S. Public Health Service that Bonham had been hit by epidemic pleurodynia ("devil's grip"), probably caused...
...bring her romance and a fresh start-until he attacks her crudely. She tries, vainly, to commit suicide. Years later, by now a hardened rake, Raymond thinks to himself: "Everything serves as fuel for passion: abstinence sharpens it, repletion strengthens it, virtue keeps it awake . . . It is a frantic and a horrible obsession...
...whoosh past his neck, but the Amethyst was untouched. Then she began to flood from a waterline shell hole suffered in the first day's attack. In the engineroom the depleted crew of eleven worked at temperatures up to 170 degrees, drank ten gallons of tea during the frantic run. In the chart-room, two men tried to pick out the channel with an echo sounder. One thing was sure: the Amethyst had to hit the narrow opening in the boom or "she would slice off her bottom." As she approached it, a flare went up, Communist guns opened...