Word: fever
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THROUGHOUT the world, industrialization is spurring millions to want more-and to feel more thwarted when affluence and equality are too slowly achieved. In the highly industrialized U.S., the fever is intensified by racial and generational clashes. The result is impatience with the political process: a yen for direct action has created a charged emotional climate that inflames inherently violent minds...
...Although accounts of his death vary, the most persistent version is that he succumbed to yellow fever and toppled from his stool during a recital in Rio de Janeiro while performing a composition of his called Morte...
...There was a six-year-old ghetto boy admitted to the hospital where I worked for treatment of rheumatic fever. We became aware that Jimmy was a disturbed youngster, and we did some psychological testing. Jimmy, in tests that are admittedly culture-bound, tested out at an IQ of 125. His mother was as you've described the poverty-stricken-dull and depressed. We all looked at Jimmy in helpless despair. We knew that in all likelihood, he would either become depressed and his IQ would gradually go down to a dull level, or he would use his brains...
...these are part of a merger fever that is running through the Japanese industrial establishment. Shozo Hotta, head of Osaka's big Sumitomo Bank, says: "There is no doubt that a full-scale reorganization of business is now in progress...
Everett C. Thomas, 47, a Phoenix, Ariz., accountant, was in St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital in Houston waiting for Dr. Denton A. Cooley to replace three valves in his heart, all damaged by rheumatic fever beginning 15 years ago. A donor heart became available after Kathleen Martin, 15, shot herself in the head during a quarrel with her 18-year-old husband. By extraordinary coincidence, Dr. Cooley had operated on her in 1962 because a narrowing of her aorta was restricting the outflow from her heart, which was becoming enlarged to meet its extra work load...