Word: franticness
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...over the Reich desperate variations sounded on this single frantic theme: work and fight. Goebbels ordered eighth-grade pupils out of school into war plants. Battalions of German women formed pick & shovel brigades to strengthen the West Wall. A Swiss traveler reported that the first German women troops were already manning parts of the West Wall. The German nightmare-Einkreisung, encirclement-was coming true at last. And behind the frightened Germans stood a vast potential fifth column. Scattered throughout the Reich were some eight million foreign workers. To them last week went two calls from General Eisenhower's headquarters...
...fuel and refrigerator sales) for the first half of 1944. (In all of 1940 City Ice grossed $25.7 million.) On Sept. 1 City Ice will retire all its preferred stock: $12 million worth, paying accrued dividends of $1.62½ a share. But record business also has brought fantastic demands. Frantic calls from iceless areas have required it to ship from California to Texas, from Florida to Texas, from Chicago to Mexico...
...Weak to Stand. "Why more of these unfortunate people do not give up [and commit] suicide, I do not know. . . . Instead, they struggle inland with a frantic desperation of which one is forcibly reminded by seeing the deep ulcers on the buttocks of people too weak to walk who have struggled across the country in a sitting posture...
...Boston Police Force was needed to retrieve Harold Holbrook's hat from a keepsake-collecting girl in outer Boston. It seems she had passed it on to a sailor friend who had consequently broken off relations. With a frantic appeal to justice and some maneuvering, the police extracted the hat and the incident was kept out of the papers...
Finally, after frantic urging by his worried friends, he decided to join battle in Chicago. He made an exquisitely characteristic entrance. While other candidates were ogling photographers and passing out broadsides, Henry Wallace boarded his train one stop away from Washington, got off again one stop before Chicago. Twelve cameramen and half a dozen reporters were left waiting at Chicago's Grand Central Station...