Word: franticness
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...vocalized romance between Kosciuszko and a Polish girl (Marta Eggerth), is drenched in thicker-than-usual musicomedy mulligatawny. Crowds of peasants, more Ruritanian than Polish, whirl about with almost frightening energy; court balls are halted by the alarums of war; battlefields, bathed in lurid crimson light, are agitated by frantic flag-waving ballets...
During the frantic race to build the atomic bomb, many incidental discoveries were made and put on ice. Among the most important: the radioactive by-products of the uranium-graphite pile. Almost any substance, stuck in the pile's atomic furnace, comes out brimming with radioactivity...
...When hospital crowding forces mothers to go home a few days after confinement, Dr. McLendon has noticed that they get used to their new infants easily, thus :utting down frantic phone calls to doctors and hospitals in fancied emergencies...
...Manhattan apartment, keeps phoning her husband at his office, gets nothing but a busy signal. She finally persuades the operator to dial the number for her, is cut in on a conversation between two men making plans for murder. Cut off, she calls the police, who listen to her frantic tale with half an ear and hang up. After a good deal of hysterical hocuspocus, she decides that the two men had been hired by her husband to kill...
...Stabilization and the A.F. of L. and C.I.O. They argued that only by keeping the price ceiling would badly needed cheap housing be built, a wild inflation in building be averted. Without a ceiling, a $6,000 house could easily sell for $12,000 in the present shortage. Furthermore, frantic bidding for prices of scarce materials would soon boost their prices out of sight, and further jack up building costs all down the line...