Word: freneticism
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In one of these beer halls, Himmler first heard Hitler. At once, he joined the party of the flaccid man with the frenetic shriek and the square-cut mustache. He carried the standard in the abortive Nazi beer-cellar Putsch of 1923. Himmler was not arrested; the Bavarian police of...
Landing Party. On the loch below an ancient clansman's castle (which is headquarters), Rangers armed to the teeth paddled toward shore in longboats. From the crags a rifle spat and a pair of Bren guns began a frenetic stutter. Water spurted up alongside the boats. A bullet shattered...
Over his ship's speaker system, Oct. 26, Captain Gatch asked his men if they were ready. Bulkheads rattled the shout of 2,000 men: "Aye, aye, sir!" The first attack lasted eight minutes. The enemy threw in 20 dive-bombers. The battleship spoke with all its voices: the...
Japan Could Be Struck at Home. The Japanese people heard the thundering news in the crash of bombs and the frenetic hammer of U.S. machine guns. They saw it in the smoke rising from fires on the edge of Tokyo, third largest city of the world (pop. 6,581,000...
The big Consolidated boat was at 18,000 feet over the Atlantic and the oxygen was sobbing comfortably in the crew's masks. Then it happened. Somehow the automatic pilot jammed. With its right aileron all the way down, the 15-ton Catalina went into a violent left turn...