Word: franticness
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During these frantic maneuvers, the engineer came on deck smiling, because he was damn proud of his boys-the Filipinos in the engine room were sticking without a murmur, not even asking questions. Pokerfaced deckhands buckled on automatics and bolo knives. An hour later, saved by darkness, the deckhands "were strumming a guitar and ukulele, singing their version of American jazz tunes, vintage...
...response to their frantic appeals, Professor Casner good-naturedly agreed to appear in their defense. But even the best legal obscurantism and phraseological browbeating had no effect on the hard-headed magistrate of Newton. With a "Hey, you, enough of that!" from the Sergeant-at-Arms, Professor Casner was forced to let the law take its course. Adelman and co-defendant were fined twice the usual amount...
...Frantic and Fanatical...
...that war is the acceptance neither of duty nor of danger: "it is at certain moments the pure and simple acceptance of death." In some marvelously clear and compassionate writing on refugees, and on heartsick soldiers who threw in their cards, and on the cracked and frantic machineries of civil and military administration, he manages to tell more of the fall of his nation than any dozen books of Inside Stuff...
...Latin America. As unity grew out of the Pan-American conference at Rio, said Director MacLeish, the Axis beam to South America became a frantic torrent. Since most Latin Americans are Catholics, the Italian radio portrayed "Protestant Roosevelt" in an alliance with "Atheist Stalin" against "Catholic Fascism." Another Axis broadcast asserted that the Vatican had urged Latin America not to break with the Axis. This the Vatican promptly denied...