Word: franticness
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...fate of the draft bill fitted a paralyzing pattern: long delay followed by frantic, last-minute improvisation. President Truman had requested draft extension last September. No bill reached the House floor until April 10. There it was emasculated. Then the May 15 deadline closed in on the Senate...
...time high, 12 more months of price control would assure an orderly distribution of new goods at existing prices. The twin battles of production and inflation are nearly won, yet manufacturers and farmers, in their greed, are willing to scrap national safety and welfare in a frantic last minute rush for profits...
...evening wore on, Pauline Hutt grew frightened. Finally she bundled up her nine-year-old son and together they began a frantic search in the biting zero wind and darkness. When she found her husband, he was trailing blood as he crawled toward home. He mumbled that he had slipped on the ice, struck his gun against a rock and shot himself...
January Thaw uses one of those broad-comedy situations that can be funny for an act but is almost always fatal for an evening. Here very little is funny, even at the start. Beyond grinding out increasingly frantic variations on a single theme, January Thaw is always corny and often cobwebby in its humor...
...this time, frantic French listeners were flying to their windows, rushing into the street, gathering weeping children about them. Babies were born prematurely into a world their mothers thought was ending. Suicides were reported. Many listeners called the police or their parish priests. Few stayed near their radios long enough to hear the announcer say: "Wake up. It's a joke...