Word: franticness
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Early in the week the Japanese struck. Lookout stations on the border of Szechwan Province spotted the planes, flying high. Chungking authorities were notified. Alarm sirens wailed. All over the city frantic Chinese hurried out in the open, crying "Chin pao! Chin pao!" ("The alarm! The alarm!"). In the downtown areas, where shopkeepers had built wooden stalls over the ruins from last May; up on the hill, where the livid scar of a huge incendiary-bomb fire had been covered with a town of mat sheds; across the Yangtze River, where the U. S. Embassy stands-all through the city...
...Frantic Allies. Desperately France and Britain worked to remedy their mistakes. To a reported offer by France of a free port at Djibouti, minority rights in Tunisia and a seat on the Suez Canal board. Il Duce replied coldly that the offer was "too late and too little." The British Government, angling for eventual help from Russia, rushed Socialist Sir Stafford Cripps to the Kremlin, where he is well liked. But was there time to get help from Russia? To smooth relations with Spain, His Majesty's Government sent Sir Samuel Hoare as Ambassador to Madrid...
Week 1 of Hitler's war against the West was too frantic, and passed too quickly, for its real effect on U. S. business to become visible. But the first impulse of many a U. S. businessman was to get liquid and cancel his commitments. A selling panic hit the stock and commodity markets. But Hitler's victories also started a U. S. National Defense boom towards the blueprint stage...
...Frantic was the scurrying in Detroit. Judge Ferguson slapped a bond on all those he had accused (including Mr. McCrea), held them for trial, continued his hearings. Last week he came up with the biggest gobbet...
...minor parts has received superb treatment, each one is true to a certain American type. Betty Field is magnificent as the rancher's pathetic wife, whom Lennie strangles absent-mindedly. Stroking a puppy, disgustedly watching her sensual husband suck up his food, drumming her fingers on the table in frantic boredom, she draws an unforgettable picture of the same frustration and despair of farm life to which Hamlin Garland gave anguished voice...