Word: frantically
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, had entered the Walls fortnight ago, just four days before the Rodeo opener. The con section cheered Newcomer Ellis wildly, but he was a mortified spectacle. The horse he drew calmly sidled over to a corner of the arena, refused to budge despite frantic gigging and ear cuffing...
Free board, free room, and free entertainment are the enticements offered and according to Larry Lader '41, chairman of the Harvard for Smith Club, "the girls are simply frantic to get some Harvard men." He refused to enlarge, however, on the meaning of the word "entertainment...
...Bucharest cagey King Carol, who had wooed the Axis too late in life, heard about it when he received a frantic telephone call from his Foreign Minister telling him that Germany and Italy demanded that Rumania submit the dispute to arbitration-i.e., surrender a whacking chunk of Transylvania. The King had until 5 o'clock the next morning. His only consolation was that Germany would guarantee to him what would be left of his Kingdom. He summoned his Crown Council to the Palace, and throughout most of the night King & Councilors cudgeled their brains for a dodge. Just...
...tons of tin it uses annually, the U. S. produces almost none, imports over 75% from the vulnerable Netherlands East Indies and British Malaya. Building a tin stockpile against emergency is one of the Defense Commission's most frantic concerns. Last week Oscar Bach offered his tin substitute to the War Department. He has also aroused interest in thrifty great A. & P. Tea Co. Besides containers for Army food, Bach foresaw another use for Bachited black iron: a building material easily adapted to prefabricated dwellings, barracks...
...Frantic was the rush of U. S. summer trippers hoping to glimpse the Windsors in the Bahamas. The cruise ship Acadia cleared from Manhattan for Nassau with 40% more passengers than she ever carried before. To Bermuda went the President Roosevelt, with reporters and cameramen celebrating...