Word: franticness
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...sooty bandsmen, now safe outside, began to play again. The street and the circus lot with its rows of red-painted wagons, the open lots lying beyond, were full of people watching the hotly burning wreckage. Past them wandered the burned and the weeping; the frantic parents of children dead in the flames, the lost tots staring at strange faces, the dazed and blackened figures with singed hair and loose rags of clothing...
...Nazi posters, books and pamphlets. Barricades appeared along with the flags of Denmark, Britain, the U.S. and Russia. Exultant Danes mingled scraps of The Star-Spangled Banner and God Save the King with their own sonorous anthem. The second night 700 Danes were killed or wounded. Then the frantic Germans declared that they would call in bombers to destroy the city. But the demonstrators kept up their ominous preview of what the Germans might expect as the tide rose in Europe...
...back as the full power of 10,000 ripening Camembert cheeses oozed out the opened door. The officers commandeered a quantity of precious gasoline, saturated the building and its contents, stood back in satisfaction as one more apparent hazard to the health of troops went up in smoke. The frantic, howling owner did not speak enough English to make them understand that his stinking hoard really smelled just right...
...last it got too rugged for the Germans. After an hour the prisoners heard frantic cries: "Nicht schiessen." The German machine gunners outside at the gate kept on firing. So did the American attackers But inside the house the German defenders surrendered to their own prisoners, sat down, sweating and white...
...street where whorehouses stood next door to reputable homes, soldiers with wrong addresses drove respectable Romans frantic. Signs appeared on front doors: "This house occupied by private family only...