Word: franticness
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...frantic call went out to the U.S. Army to send 1,000 soldiers from Fort Dix to help unload. Meanwhile, half a million bushels of tomatoes were in dan ger of rotting on truck, freight car and vine. A volunteer crew of more than 2,000 citizens and servicemen worked over the weekend, saved the waiting truckloads...
Though only a part-time job for its playwright, The Two Mrs. Carrolls is a full-time one for its star. Actress Bergner is by turns gay, childlike, passionate, pathetic, bewildered, frightened and frantic; and though at moments a little hard to believe, she is always exciting to watch...
Panic swept through the satellite kingdoms of the Balkans like fire through an old-fashioned country hotel. Dimly in the smoke and confusion the watchers saw frantic Fascists rushing from window to window, seeking escape. In the Bulgarian wing the flames licked highest. In the Hungarian part there seemed still time; people were debating what to take with them, seizing the customary irrelevant knickknacks. The Rumanian section looked hopeless. Outside stood armed Germans, determined that none should save himself at the Führer's expense. Crouched silently among the Germans were tin Greeks, the Albanians, the anti-Axis...
...sound of German machine-gun fire thickened, Bowland fired faster. A frantic voice came into our walkie-talkie, saying the shells from our mortars were dropping...
...soon it was plain that they were depending more heavily on another weapon. The frantic enemy was firing torpedo spreads. I had turned away, momentarily blinded by gun glare, and was hanging on to the bridge shield when I saw the white track of a torpedo shooting straight for us. A signalman saw it too, and yelled, but it was too late to turn...