Word: franticness
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...thought many abuses would develop from the system. A member of the committee asked him whether or not it was true that students in two State-owned schools received tickets at half fare. His refusal to answer this question brought much stamping and hissing which was silenced only by frantic efforts of policemen...
...breasted tuxedo, and Bess, resplendent in black velvet, had the time of their lives at a fund-raising show for the newly revived U.S.O. at Constitution Hall. Onstage, Cabinet officers, military brass, Congressmen and local society bigwigs wisecracked, caterwauled, sawed away on their fiddles, square-danced, and performed a frantic Charleston, complete with short skirts and rolled stockings...
...that atmosphere of tumult and frantic improvisation, the nation got the news it had been waiting for: prices & wages, which had zoomed to the highest levels in U.S. history were finally under control. The controls reached down to the farthest corners of the giant U.S. economy. They were wrapped up in two sweeping decrees, which covered three principal areas...
...Bedroom Raid." As the raiding party fumbled with a screen door, a .22 rifle cracked inside the dark house. Mrs. Gehr toppled over, dead, with a bullet hole between her eyes. The rifle cracked again, and the detectives-one of them wounded in the arm-charged off in frantic retreat. Mrs. Matthews jumped out a rear window and ran, too-according to tabloid reports, completely naked...
...York. For the bebop man, Manhattan's Alley's Creative Clothes "The House of Frantic Styles"offered two of its newest and slickest numbers:at $14.95, a knee-length, double-breasted gabardine "Bop Cardigan," with four patch-pockets and no lapels; at $8.95, a pair of "highrise, drop-loop, saddle-stitch, tricky-pocket peg pants...