Word: franticness
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...past seven years this assignment has twice taken her back to Europe's capitals-to London, Paris, Berlin, Rome, Prague and Vienna. She was in Germany during the frantic days just before Munich when the Czechs were mobilizing and France was calling up her reserves-crossed five miles of mined border into Holland en route to Britain - there heard Chamberlain defend before the House of Commons his tragic effort "to keep peace in our time" while his countrymen were feverishly digging air raid shelters and experimenting with barrage balloons. That same year she visited Canada to meet the Dominion...
World's Press News, English counterpart of the U.S. Editor & Publisher, asked London editors to tell what they considered the most frantic night's work they had had in four years of war. The news that caused the work...
...least, the slow-moving Halifaxes and Stirlings and use only speedy Lancasters. The Lancasters did not tarry. Launching a new, concentrated kind of attack, they loosed 1,120 tons in a brief and terrible 20 minutes. Within the week 69 British planes fell under the Luftwaffe's frantic defense. But faster than autumn leaves, the bombs continued to fall on a city marked for revenge...
...amazement of the elder citizenry, not to speak of grubby, small boys who want to know if we are WACS . . . out of the pleasant overtones of cigarettes over coffee after dinner, gala evenings in town with the inevitable mad rush to beat the 7.45 bell back to Briggs, the frantic borrowing, lending, and devouring of the hall's incredible stock of Pocket Book murder mysteries ("Death in the Dawn" challenges in popularity the latest Memo change) . . . out of all this, dank, drab and insidious, emanates a contagious disease . . . known only to Naval personnel in training . . . billet fever! One may detect...
Penicillin, the wonder drug of 1943, last week made headlines up & down the nation. Newspapers reported a wave of frantic appeals for the drug by blood-poisoning sufferers who suddenly learned that 1) penicillin might save their lives, 2) there was not enough to go around...