Word: franticness
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...staff of 15,000, directed by a Major General Malzev. Since mining began in August 1946, millions of tons of pitchblende have been extracted by Wismut A.G. and sent to Russia. It is poor in uranium content. In the last six months production has been whipped up to a "frantic" pace. Says the British report: "It can only be concluded that the Russians are in urgent need of uranium...
...Defense Department last week totted up what it has spent or earmarked for arms since the shooting started in Korea. The total: $6 billion or almost $1 billion a week. But unlike the frantic days before World War II, the orders have been placed with little fuss or muss. Businessmen who hustled to Washington for defense contracts have been asked to return home and deal with regional procurement offices, which are doing most of the buying...
Slowly the weight of two full Red regiments pushed the undermanned U.S. units back toward the pass. But at the pass, the G.I.s stuck. Time & time again, Red charges smashed against the Americans' guns. As the Reds rushed up reserves, frantic G.I. gunners manning 13 guns lobbed a torrent of 155-mm. and 105-mm. shells into masses of green-clad North Koreans trying to move up along the hillsides. But the Reds kept on coming. Two "Mansei" (the Korean equivalent of the Japanese "Banzai") charges rolled up against the U.S. positions-and broke...
Upton Sinclair; France's Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre, ex-Communists André Malraux and André Gide. First place went to Steinbeck, who "jumped from the camp of progress and love of humanity into the camp of frantic reaction, barbarism and cannibalism...
Brigadier General William L. Roberts, until recently head of the 500-man U.S. military mission in Korea, had called the Korean army "the best doggoned shooting army outside the United States." There was some question whether the army had enough to shoot with. In the South, Koreans made a frantic plea to the U.S. for more ammunition; they were believed to have only a ten-day supply...