Word: delirium
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...disease produces high fever, delirium, and painfully swollen lymph glands form dark discolorations called buboes; death follows massive internal bleeding. People infected with the most virulent, pneumonic form can infect others by sneezing. The villain is a bacillus, Pasteurella pestis, which thrives in rats, the fleas that bite them, and humans exposed to either pest. Destroying fleas and keeping rats from migrating curb the plague, but Viet Nam's fleas have grown more resistant to available insecticides; and, for example, there are only four quarantine inspectors to see that busy harbor ships keep a constant guard against invading rats...
Despite such delirium, delegates were soberly concerned about the campaign issues. Even Humphrey had to admit that "the struggle in Viet Nam has overshadowed the record of domestic progress." Nonetheless, he urged, "it's your duty to put this in perspective. We're spending $1 billion more this year than last on the children of the poor. I hope we can bring this tragic war to a close. But I hope that those who complain that Viet Nam is choking our spending at home will, after the war is over, be among the first to pass legislation...
Bulging Eye. What seems like doodling at first sight soon appears to have its own peculiar, illogical order, a system of delusions. His shock treatment is conveyed by a line that is like a delirium tremor; once snared, the eye lopes along in a crazy rhythm, here surprised by a prominent nose, there by a bulging eye, now tripping over a clodhopper of a shoe, now stumbling onto a wretchedly knobby knee, all in a never-never land of ambiguity. Having attacked the canons of classical art, he now seems intent on undercutting the distinctions between normalcy and abnormality...
...delirium of the grand depths, giving away...
...more than a pencil to sketch out-of-doors, rushed to the bank of the Thames to brush out nine water-colors of the burning buildings (see opposite). He even blotted his copybook pages against each other in his eagerness to capture that dramatic scene. A romantic's delirium, it was the apocalypse brought to reality-the flames mirrored in the water, the starry skies burning with feverish color...