Word: franticness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Life in a Tree. Frantic tenants stormed the rent-control offices. After three boiling days, the Los Angeles acting area director wearily closed his desk for the weekend with a final word of advice: "Don't move. Stay where you are. Wait until your landlord takes your case to court before you obey any eviction notice...
Through the somber streets of Clermont-Ferrand ran a frantic youth. "Protect me! My organization is out to get me!" he shrieked when he reached a police station. He said he had been summoned to a nearby villa, "Chez Lisette," where the other members of the "organization" had condemned him to death for treason...
...Alaskan aviation was zooming. Thanks to the Army's frantic wartime construction, and to war surplus sales (at which an ex-service flyer could buy a DC-3 for $25,000), aviation had finally come of age. The airplane had long been a versatile beast of burden in roadless Alaska. But as late as 1939 northern flying had been a primitive business with no fields capable of accommodating a modern transport, no directional radio navigation aids, little radio communication...
...Ceres again. This Ceres is a powerful, morose woman. Her breasts are full, her waist is thick and muscled, her hips wide and powerful. Her strong legs are firmly planted in pregnant wheat. Her bored, detached attitude bothers some of the men. But usually the red-faced, screaming, frantic little men with thinning white hair and worried brows are too preoccupied to look at the fertile, sullen woman. They jump around, dash up & down the seven steps of the pit, wave their arms, yell as loud as God made it possible to yell...
...practically carried him on his back, thereby keeping Johnson from completing a double play. At Yankee Stadium (right), Hal Wagner of the Boston Red Sox made it. Hit on the head with a baseball, he was knocked out temporarily, and but for Yankee Shortstop Phil Rizzuto's frantic leap might have been spiked...