Word: franticness
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This Way Out. In Hope Mills, N.C., the local constable obliged when Robert Allen made a frantic appeal to him: "You've got to put me in jail. I've got two wives and I just can't stand it any more...
Beans & Rice. The refugees had found no welcome in Cuba, where aliens (except for a few technicians) are not allowed to work, and naturalization takes five years. Unable to leave or support themselves, they wrote frantic letters to friends and relatives in the U.S., besieged the U.S. consul for a place on the quota (the best they can hope for is a five years' wait), entered into hundreds of deals for spurious visas and fake Cuban citizenship papers. They moved from one shoddy rooming house to another, ate black beans and rice at corner kiosks and fly-ridden restaurants...
None of the geological literature quoted by Shimkin is later than 1944. What the Russians may have found by frantic searching since that time, Shimkin does not guess. But he believes that the uranium deposits found before the war in the Fergana Valley alone "appear to provide a possible basis for the development of atomic power in that region...
After the election, Democratic Johnny-come-latelys fell over one another in a frantic burst of generosity which brought about $600,000. Some tried to predate their donations; the Democratic moneyraisers took their money, but weren't deceived. Among the faithful pre-election contributors: Treasury Secretary John W. Snyder and family, $8,000; Cash-Raiser Louis Johnson (who now wants to be Secretary of Defense), $3,000; Mrs. Truman's secretary, Reathel Odum...
Harvard's performance in the first half was sloppy. With Walt McCurdy sitting out the entire half, the team hit only twice from the floor. Three times, frantic set shots missed the backboard...