Word: franticness
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Hitler had lost the gamble. Instead of consolidating his eastern front he had gambled on the capture of Stalingrad. But Stalingrad had held out and now was striking back at his advanced columns. In the midst of Herr Hitler's frantic preoccupation with Africa the Russian winter offensive had exploded. In the central sector around Rzhev the Russians launched another attack. In both sectors Hitler's troops stumbled backward over the frozen graves of Axis soldiers who had already died in the attempt to conquer Russia...
...raid-report center on Lehman Hall was opened for the emergency traffic. Twenty men sent by the Naval School helped man the center's phones, and as calls began to pour into extension 123 at the Navy's order, the switchboard, manned by a battery of operators, answered frantic calls until late at night...
...problem as any that Army and Navy are likely to inherit. For the interests of speed, most of these properties have been acquired either by outright condemnation or with very sketchy discussions of real values. Hence suits for fair return are apt to choke the courts for years. One frantic real-estater's estimate last week: a post-war lawyer's field day of 30 years or more...
...Epstein career has proceeded by a mounting series of sensations. It began in 1908. Commissioned to sculpt decorations for the British Medical Association Building, Epstein spent 14 frantic months suspended on a scaffold high above London's busy Strand. When the scaffolding was removed from his first five oversized nudes, the storm broke. Wrote the Evening Standard on page 1: "It is unnecessary to say any more than that they are a form of statuary which no careful father would wish his daughter, or no discriminating young man, his fiancée, to see." Result: for thousands of careful...
With well over 200 volunteers signing up to spend their weekend thus fruitfully employed, Andrew E. Rice '43, who was in charge of the episode, found that there was a surplus of workers that threatened to paralyze the available transportation system and inundate the orchard. Only by dint of frantic last-minute telephone calls did he discourage some of the would be patriots and reduce the party to a manageable figure...