Word: franticness
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...Chinese were well into the northwestern sector of Seoul. Baker Company of Mike Michaelis' ist Battalion was having a hot fight. The last frantic surge of refugees spewed forth across the ice of the frozen...
...week's end some 8,000 marines broke through the last thin crust of enemy resistance and poured into Hamhung. More kept coming in every hour as tanks bringing up the rear rolled across the coastal plain. Frantic photographers called to the bedraggled men, asked them to "wave and look happy." They obliged. The triumph was marred by more than 30% casualties, but the bulk of the marine division's and the 7th's survivors had reached safety and warmth. It was an epic of great suffering and great valor...
...British Ballerina Moira (Red Shoes) Shearer, who after listening to a frantic chorus, asked Muggsy: "Tell me, do you find ballet dull...
...Tribune" said Colonel McCormick, "we have only modest claims to make." In Cook County's frantic sheriff race said Bertie, "we made the fight that beat 'Tubbo' [Police Capt. Daniel A. Gilbert] and elected [John E.] Babb. Also, we carried Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, Colorado, California, Minnesota and Wisconsin. Not bad. We carried Michigan for all of the ticket but [Harry F.] Kelly [the G.O.P. candidate in the still-disputed governor's race], and carried all of the state for him except C.I.O. Detroit and the upper peninsula, which, without railroad mail service from Chicago, is lacking...
...Delight; Roosevelt and Hopkins) Sherwood announced that he had accepted the chairmanship of a new Council of the Living Theater. The plan is to launch "a nationwide campaign of education ... to arouse in more people a keener appreciation and zest for the whole theatrical experience as opposed to the frantic and transient interest in hit shows alone...