Word: franticness
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...months or years before Moscovites can actually ride on a subway complete with stations, tickets and all such necessaries. But last week the 70,000 Moscow subway builders, fired with frantic zeal, pledged themselves not to slow down, vowed that next January a train shall run over the entire seven-mile underground line as demanded by the original plan...
Belgrade, Jugoslavia, Oct. 9--Stupified by the assassination of King Alexander I, and fearing a Croatian uprising, Jugoslavia was swept tonight by a wave of apprehension reflected in a frantic cabinet meeting at the palace...
Heeding finally the frantic requests of the League's Saar Commissioner Knox and his Chief of Police that a fair plebiscite in January will be absolutely impossible without additional police, the League decided to recruit its first private army. Ever since the League was founded the loudest argument of its opponents has been that it would cause the drafting of innocent young men to fight private wars for peace. Almost every League member fought shy of allowing its nationals to be called for service in the Saar...
Saying little, Kaganovitch poked about among women diggers obviously making frantic efforts to push the big tubes to completion on time. After inspecting everything he turned to the Chief Engineer, who might be shot for "counter revolution" if his subway failed to please...
...Belgium most tourists find prices attractively cheap, seldom notice the peculiarities of Belgium's liquor control system which drives many a native frantic. Only in the case of Belgians returning home do Belgian customs men search mercilessly for smuggled bottles...