Word: franticness
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Smith's winning jump shot climaxed a frantic last two minutes in which three Elis tossed in quick baskets to put Yale out front, 55 to 54. Then, with a minute left, a cool Bob Bramhall brought the game under control with a foul shot followed two plays later by Smith's basket...
...greatest hockey game since the war. The varsity sextet stunned BC with five goals in the first period, maintained that margin until midway through the final stanza and then fought off the frantic counterattack of the Eagles, a drive which netted four goals. And the final score was Harvard 9, Boston College...
...army of his own, Manstein broke through the French line on the Somme. When Hitler launched his attack on Russia, it was Manstein who commanded the southern German army group, won a string of victories in the Ukraine and the Crimea. Hamstrung during the long retreat after Stalingrad by frantic orders from the Führer, he broke with Hitler, lived in retirement while the Allies smashed their way into Germany...
...formally dedicated a new monument to the Voortrekkers, a massive, brooding granite tabernacle on the boulder-strewn veld near Pretoria. South Africa's 8,000,000 black people were excluded from all celebrations. For days before the actual dedication ceremonies, while bonfires blazed in the hilltops around Pretoria, frantic rumors had swept the wretched native settlements that the white men were bent on a bloody sequel to the battle of Blood River, that they would go forth on Dingaan's day to slay black men, women & children. The government broadcast special messages to allay their fears...
Within the hour, NBC switchboards throughout the country were jammed with frantic phone calls from children wanting verification of the news. Next day, the Chicago Sun-Times, which had had its share of calls, headlined: "Children: Santa Has NOT Been Shot." Penitent NBC prefaced its next day's News of the World with an interview, over a "special super-radio circuit," between Commentator Morgan Beatty in Houston and Santa Claus at the North Pole. Said Santa, reassuringly: "John L. Lewis just missed...