Word: franticness
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...frantic doctor tried to find her, partly to save his precious radium but mostly to prevent the lady from getting radium burns. Presently the patient phoned to report that her little bandage had "come loose" (she had not been overexposed). It had disappeared into the hairdresser's plumbing, 19 floors up in a Madison Avenue skyscraper...
...British captain in Cairo ripped open a cablegram from England, goggled in mute horror at the message: "Son born." Frantic inquiries at the cable office disclosed that Form Message 185 had been substituted for No. 85 ("Receiving letters occasionally"). The error made a difference to the captain: he had not seen his wife in two years...
Billy's parents were frantic. They saw the child's face and fingers swell, saw him grow fretful and throw his toys on the floor. They have given all of their own blood that they can. Meanwhile papers all over the U.S. took up the cause. Result: hundreds of donors volunteered to give blood. Cartons of plasma arrived from Boston and Washington; 300 WACs at Chanute Field, Ill. arranged to give a pint of blood apiece. At week's end the Baylor Hospital's blood bank was again in the black; the interminable transfusions began again...
...Truman Committee turned up what will probably prove to be only the first of many tales of frantic, wasteful Army spending after Pearl Harbor. Lesson One involved $134,000,000 - the cost of the Army's long-secret Canol project for fueling Alaska Highway and air traffic by developing an oilfield in Canada's frozen Northwest near Fort Norman...
...efforts failing, Argentina signed her own treaty with Paraguay, giving trade and financial concessions never dreamed of before. Simultaneously she redoubled her frantic efforts to entice neighbor Chile into her "free-trade area," offering a subway for Santiago, a tunnel under the Andes and other pleasant things. The Chilean leftist press described it as another attempt by Argentina to escape from isolation...