Word: franticness
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...frantic stabs with a 12-foot oar to retrieve the elusive bit of Government properly were unavailing, and to the moans of the assembled multitudes, the chapeau sank into the Charles' murky depths...
While most students of politics are flooding the presses with frantic expressions of "the great ideals of our democratic way of life," Professor Spykman has written a primer of power for America which is a direct descendant of Machiavelli's handbook for princes. His coolly objective approach to the present crisis is a relief both from the disciples of sweetness and light and from the evangelists of American imperialism. The author, Professor to International Relations at Yale, devotes his efforts to contemporary problems of American foreign policy. The major task of the book is to define America's position among...
Following the discovery of the violated relic, notices had appeared on all the bulletin boards inviting the culprits to see him. Frantic offers of free tickets from the dance committee had failed to produce these criminals by the deadline and the dance was cancelled, but confessions from the guilty parties restored peace to the outraged Deacons...
Harvard Square's disappointment center is the Bicycle Exchange, where more than 200 frantic customers were given the cold shoulder the day after gasoline rationing was announced, where 50 or 60 frustrated hopefuls are turned away daily, and where a waiting list of over 500 threatens to be completely ignored...
...moved toward real totalitarianism last week (see col. 2), it had one solace for its frantic victims. There was going to be less red tape. After four months of trial, WPB had a grown-up plan for distributing scarce materials. Its official name -the Production Requirements Plan-had long ago been affectionately shortened to "Purp" by the 7,000-odd manufacturers already working under...