Shortly after 0800, desperate messages calling for assistance began to come in from 7th Fleet.

Scipio knew he couldn't fight without more troops, and sent a desperate message to Juba for assistance.

"I came back and he had left all these wonderful, desperate messages," she said.

She moved around the table and stood behind him, her eyes on the pad as he wrote his desperate message.

Elena had time for only one desperate message.

At the same time, a desperate message arrived from Peking requesting immediate help.

The newspaper reported that officials "in some cases scrawled desperate messages on bits of paper.

On the whole, the arrangement and performance worked against the still desperate message contained in the words.

And always the eyes looking at her, looking through her, their message even more desperate than before.

He had sealed the door with an electronic lock and refused to answer any of the increasingly desperate messages that came through his board.