Word: franticness
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Gasoline squirting by Reds began with a frantic will, for meanwhile a White army under Generalissimo Francisco Franco had at last decisively taken Talavera de la Reina (see p. 19) and, advancing five miles per day, was within 25 miles of the Alcázar when torches were applied and gasoline blazed high. Cheering wildly a Red column swept up the rocky base of the fortress-only to be driven back by sickening gasoline fumes while the blaze soon guttered out on the rocks. To save his Red face after this fiasco, General José Asensio of the Red militia...
...monitorial activity ceased and a frantic conference was held to determine the nationality of a man from the Philippines. Nobody was sure what the University expected after the entry blank: "Date of admission to Harvard College...
Terror over Barcelona. If Madrid was enthusiastic last week Barcelona was delirious with popular excesses as its Anarchists, Syndicalists and Communists drove President Luis Companys of their autonomous Catalonia nearly frantic...
...Sebastian was being defended by its Anarchists, who kept vowing that they would set it afire as they did Irun rather than let it fall to the Whites. The Governor of San Sebastian, frantic Antonio Ortega, begged the Anarchists not to ignite it and mothers with children in their arms ran to Anarchist leaders clamoring, "Please don't burn down our homes!" Adamant were the Anarchists when into San Sebastian rolled 500 jaunty Basques...
...adults shiver and his writing "clung to the mind like music." Cut off from the sources of his inspiration in old age, after his travels abroad, Hawthorne's genius disintegrated where Emerson's grew more powerful. At last he could not write at all, getting into that frantic state of inability to concentrate that later cursed Mark Twain. "Hard as he tried to write, pulling down the blinds and locking his door, he could not bring his mind into focus. The novel became two novels, and the two became four He could not fix upon a single setting...