Word: franticness
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...burning wreckage frantic employes pulled Zlin's prophet, master and First Working Partner. He was carried to the morgue in the factory hospital. For almost an hour the production of shoes stopped, the Fordized conveyors halted. Then they began to move again. Thomas Bat'a would have wanted no interruption for his sake...
Handback, ruined, is philosophical until he can collect legal proof against Miltiades. Then he starts trouble, mostly for himself. In his frantic search of Miltiades' house for the money, Ponny, whose pulling & groaning at last mean more than obesity, is frightened into a miscarriage and death. Handback finds himself glad to accept Miltiades' trifling settlement...
...Somebody threw a chair which knocked out a Communist. Somebody else slashed the face of neutral Social Democrat Jurgensen. Inkwells, water bottles, desk drawers, chairs, ledgers, broken table legs went into the fray. Neutral deputies fled for their lives, others marooned on the speakers' dais spent a frantic quarter of an hour ducking missiles and wringing their hands. Safe in their odds of 3 to 1, the Fascists soon drove the last Communist from the Chamber, spent the next half-hour triumphantly roaring old war songs. Prince August Wilhelm von Hohenzollern, now a Fascist Deputy, placidly watched the riot...
...race with Cornell and Harvard, in 8 min. 48.4 sec. (a record); on the Charles River. Cornell had lost by a split-second to Yale the week before, was rated one of the East's two top crews. Cornell's and Harvard's frantic spurts were beaten back by Syracuse rowing an unhurried 34-to-the-minute from near the start to the finish...
Employing the crouch start exclusively, as well as a flying wedge for running interference, the Plympton Street team wrestled its way around the dusty bases in one frantic inning after another. It was finally necessary for the Lampoon players to purloin one of the bases in order to end the game with a triple...