Word: franticness
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...landing boat started away from the transport I crouched trembling behind the engine house like the Cowardly Lion. Before long I found I was not the only one feeling that way. Leathery men beside me clenched their guns with sweaty hands, gritted their teeth and stared with frantic concentration at the shoulders of the men ahead. I tried a feeble wink at one of them. He winked back; then, crouching lower until he was almost in the attitude in which he was born, he prayed unashamedly...
...called his girl to explain, only to find that she already had two for "Turtle." So Ed hastily gets rid of his tabs for both shows. Comes Saturday night. The girl is late. Finally in the middle of Act I they are practically is their seats when a frantic usher swoops down on them. "Sorry," says he, "but your tickets are the matinee...
...Suddenly we bolted forward. The pup-pup-pup of 20-mm. guns on the landing barges sounded like an irritable Fourth of July. Leathery men, with their garishly daubed faces, clenched their guns with sweaty hands, gritted their teeth and stared with frantic concentration at the shoulders of the men ahead...
...annual convention of the National Foreign Trade Council, and the sixth time the Captain Robert Dollar Memorial Award had been handed out. But when Juan Trippe thereupon started talking about "Foreign Trade in the Air Age," it was real news. After months of heavy silence from Pan Am and frantic speculation by everyone else concerned, Juan Trippe now, for the first time, put Pan Am's views on international aviation on the record...
TIME Correspondent Duncan Norton-Taylor, on the bridge of another U.S. ship, was an eyewitness. He cabled: "Five of their ships died in our first onslaught. Others spoke back . . . but soon it was plain they were depending more heavily on another weapon. The frantic enemy was firing torpedo spreads...