Word: franticness
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Short-tempered, sweating boatmen struggled to push their sampans and junks close to the fantail of the SS Kiangya, Chinese coastal steamer loading last week at Shanghai for Ningpo. From the cramped decks of the small boats on to the steamer's overhang clambered frantic, ticketless Shanghailanders trying to flee the frightened city. Others clogged the wharves, straining to catch tickets thrown them from portholes by friends already aboard...
Bravo! would seem like apt material for a neat Ferber & Kaufman blend of oil & vinegar. The play does have touches of warmth and wit, but most of it is a purely mechanical sponging of the emotions, or a frantic clutching at comic and dramatic straws. The characters are too often mere plushy stage furniture, exploited rather than explored. Only Refugee Actress Darvas (wife of famed Hungarian Playwright Ferenc Molnar) possesses real rather than synthetic dignity and charm...
...argued, was not really science at all: "The real things were learned in 1890 and 1905 and 1920 . . . and we took this tree with a lot of ripe fruit on it and shook it hard and out came radar and atomic bombs. [The] whole [wartime] spirit was one of frantic and rather ruthless exploitation of the known...
With these words, the U.S. Court of Appeals in Chicago last week wrote an end to one of the war's most frantic commodity scrambles (TIME, Sept. 23, 1946). It cleared General Foods Corp. and Brokers Daniel F. Rice & Co. of charges that they had cornered the rye market. It also ruled out Department of Agriculture orders suspending them from trading...
...final quarter, Duncan Mauran went to the sidelines with an injury, and the Crimson became frantic under the seven-point deficit imposed by the Army T in the second quarter. Tailback Ralph Maloney started chucking desperation passes that found their way into the arms of Army interceptors who romped down the field for four more touchdowns and the ball game...