Word: franticness
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...rush into the store was so great that customers tried to push through the "In" and "Out" side of a Macy's revolving door at the same time; the door fell flat. In the store, jammed tight with frantic bargain-hunters, Toastmasters were slashed from $23 to $14.72; Sunbeam Mixmasters were cut from $46.50 to $26.59, and hundreds of other items were cut from 6% to 40%. Down the street, Macy's big rival posted its famed slogan: "Nobody but nobody undersells Gimbels," matched Macy's cuts. Across the East River, in Brooklyn's Abraham & Straus...
...time for that; the allies' round-the-clock artillery gave them no peace. When the Chinese moved in the open by day, the airplanes hit them. The retreat, which had been orderly at first, began to grow panic-stricken and disordered. Some Chinese truck drivers were in such frantic hurry to get away from the planes that they ran down their own men on the roads...
...after getting drunk at the Senior Spread. Far from being puerile, the Class Week of 1947 produced the first enunciation of the European Recovery Plan by General George C. Marshall, who, to Pumpton's mind, was the first statesman of heroic stature to appear since Bismarck. And in a frantic attempt to flee Cambridge, Pumpton piled up his roommate's Buick on the Worcester Turnpike and spent the summer in Stillman Infirmary. The bill, including repairs to the Buick...
When the vote was taken, the committee backed Russell's ruling 18-8. The Republicans themselves split 6-6. Unabashed, Wiley cried: "It is the committee majority which has been partisan in its frantic desire to cover up and whitewash." While his colleagues kept a pained silence, Wiley declared that the committee should subpoena Harry Truman himself. This was too much for Chief Republican Strategist Robert A. Taft, who disowned it as something that "constitutionally couldn't be done...
...plumber, may find his most difficult task is that of repairing the damage done by those who first tried to analyze the trouble and repair it themselves." ¶"Five minutes of honest relaxation playing with a kitten and a piece of string can be a better therapy than a frantic trip around the world . . ." ¶"During [World War II] it became my peculiar duty to serve as psychiatric examiner at the military induction center in Los Angeles-a task, that might be compared with an attempt to judge the quality of the rivets in a jet plane as it zips...