Word: franticness
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Political authorities agreed that the Reichstag if asked to debate and pass these bills one by one would have thrown them all out amid piercing Communist shrieks, frantic Fascist antics. All that the Reichstag was asked to do last week, however, was to ratify or nullify one simple decree signed HINDENBURG...
...minutes passed before they brought up more than 100 frightened, lucky men who had been near enough the shaft to race away from gaseous Death. Soon the fatal "black damp,"* cause and aftermath of most coalmine explosions, rushed up into the wooden shed, drove rescuers back gasping. They were frantic, unorganized. The company's president, William Ewing Tytus, its vice president, P. A. Coen and the mine's superintendent, Walter Hayden, were all down there, a mile and a half along the rocky channels from the shaft-entrance, where they had gone to show a party of guests...
...More frantic than the celebration of Brazil's deliverance from her last Portuguese emperor in 1889 were the wild transports of Rio Grande do Sul's populace last week on what they called Armistice...
General Fragoso and his brother officers were admitted to an anteroom where he paced up & down. In the adjoining library frantic ministers begged the "60-year-old President to resign. Turning his back on them he walked into his office, slammed the door. Just then General Fragoso opened the library door, stuck his head in. "I do not care to invade another's home," he apologized, "but where is the President...
...latest contribution to the "Ask Me Another" game and then go on to hope it may "lure the reader into further readings". Without attempting to discredit this landable ambition, suffice it to say that "Do You Know English Literature?" is just the sort of thing for those frantic hours when "further readings" is impractical...