Another mother, Zaida Tagiro, said she spent most of the day on Thursday frantically searching the city morgue and hospitals, looking for her 13-year-old son, Davud.
Granted, some conversations are brief and hushed, and others rise to Broadway melodrama (one Amtrak passenger was overheard the other day frantically calling friends to warn her missing lover that her husband was on to them).
The FTSE 100 company, which is already the subject of a Serious Fraud Office (SFO) criminal investigation into claims it paid multimillion-pound bribes in Indonesia and China, was on Monday frantically investigating reports that the Indian government may have blacklisted it from all defence contracts.
I spent the rest of the day frantically trying to get confirmation.
With no American television bureaus in the poor Caribbean nation, news executives spent Wednesday frantically trying to figure out how to put generators and satellite uplinks in place, along with security teams to protect their staff.
"I thought there was a bomb scare or something". Others, who realized they shared the same goals as hundreds of other parents--getting their kids to see the Power Rangers--sat frantically in their cars wondering whether a parking space would await them when they franticallyined atheir studios.
Not one but two first-round draft picks spent at least a few of their first minutes in the league on Thursday frantically deleting tweets on their Twitter accounts after realizing they had been drafted by teams with players they had talked shit about in the past.
HAZELWOOD, Mo. — Rick Santorum dashed from caucus to caucus in affluent neighborhoods of suburban St . Louison Saturday morning, frantically wooing voters in an effort to secure a dominating victory in the Missouri caucuses.
The last time I was exposed to the horror of standardized testing was in 1979, when I vaguely remember rolling out of bed early one Saturday to frantically root around for two No. 2 pencils to take to a test center, where I nodded off during a particularly boring passage in the reading section.
Friday, Leslie Johnson frantically phoned her husband, Jack B. Johnson, the Prince George's county executive.
