Word: frantically
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...show, she squealed, "I'm scared. It's too hard for me to read." And it is: her lines in the script are all typed in capital letters. There are other difficulties, too. Once, when the program was on the air, Sy waved a frantic cue at her from the director's box, and Marie dazedly waved back. Another time, when a special speech by Senator Taft forced cancellation of an Irma broadcast, Sy broke the bad news: "Senator Taft's coming on in place of us." Marie stamped her foot and pouted: "You promised...
Before long, the reporters at Hamburg began getting frantic "call-backs" from their home offices. On both sides of the Atlantic, editors wanted to know which version of the facts was right. A lively argument ensued: the Americans accused the British of playing the story down, and the British accused the Americans of whooping...
...according to Jazz Pedant Rudi Blesh): "Healthy jazz distorted into frantic rhythms, fantastic harmonic non sequiturs, a psychosomatic heterophony...
...stared lifelessly into the innards of his guitar. A woman in the audience asked him, "What you got in there-dirty pictures?" After that, the Flames started looking for a new third. Two years ago, they found a bearded West Indian named Tiger Haynes ("he's a frantic guy"), and stole him from a trio called Plink, Plank and Plunk...
...casual shoppers in the Coop this summer, all seems quiet and cool, but few realize that frantic, behind the scenes preparations are in progress to handle the hoard of students expected to descend upon the Square in September...