Word: franticness
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...Collinsville, Conn., where 400 workers at the Collins Co. (machetes, axes, other tools) keep the community alive, was frantic over a shortage of steel...
...scenes: a madly loyal Cossack hanging on to a disabled cannon "like a dangerous pig tied to a log"; Red troops who, with a blaring phonograph on a sledge, gallop round & round the streets of a village; some gruesome close-ups (on both sides) of rape, looting, calm and frantic murder; a soldier trying on some fancy drawers he stole for his wife, catching his big toe in the lace; peasants shyly examining a bullet-pocked plane as it exhales its metal odors in a meadow; a lame, derelict Cossack bandit dancing with his longer leg in a hole; Gregor...
Maybe, instead, he was trying to put a knife in Franklin Roosevelt's frantic little friend Fiorello LaGuardia. It all depended on how you looked at it, when Boss Flynn handed Brooklyn's blue-eyed, stocky District Attorney William O'Dwyer the job of running against LaGuardia for mayor of New York City...
...Aryan, Adolf Hitler, could have had such ancestors. Editors of Nazi scientific papers announced that there was no room for the paleontologists' rubble heaps and old bones in the New Order. Science writers, feeling themselves full of cataclysmic creativeness, flexed their muscles in the Teuton's chronic, frantic urge to achieve Supermanliness. Perhaps the most effective argument against evolution was the heavy hint that advocacy of "neo-Darwinism" made a German politically suspect...
Only last month, in a comic strip, when Daddy Warbucks had to have a blood transfusion, Little Orphan Annie had a frantic time finding a donor with the right blood type. But that desperate, urgent situation, fairly common in modern medicine, may soon be out of date...