Word: fever
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only the league leader, the Canadiens are a playoff team. They are the oldest team in the league, but that only means that Stanley Cup fever runs deepest in their blood...
...Marathon fever is high as the 12-miler from Browne & Nichols School to the Cambridge Boat Club takes place April 13. The start and the finish are only 100 yards apart, but race officials force the entrants to run a roundabout course. Everyone, however, is thinking Marathon...
...years the Peking regime, which is vitriolic and unpredictable in its self-imposed isolation, will theoretically be able to hit the U.S. with nuclear missiles. Although the U.S. could destroy China as a modern society even more easily than it could the Soviet Union, a touch of yellow-menace fever has set in. "The Chinese are different," argues one general. "They have no regard for human life. Imagine if the Red Guards had got their hands on a couple of ICBMs!" At the same time, the Russians resisted Lyndon Johnson's initial attempts to open negotiations aimed at checking...
...treason charge. Beginning in 1895, Dreyfus spent four years, two months and 21 days in isolated confinement* before public indignation and Emile Zola's J'accuse won him new hearings and eventual exoneration. But almost 75,000 other Frenchmen served time in Guiana. Buffeted by yellow fever, malaria and sadistic jailers, not many made it home again...
...Fever Symptom. The public and the professionals also seem increasingly uneasy about the "tone" or "quality" of the market. The much publicized mess in the back offices of brokerage houses, which are tangled in paper, has done little to inspire confidence in the effectiveness of Wall Street's management. , In addition, the fast rise of prices of new issues, many of which have climbed to premiums despite meager or non-existent earnings, is a symptom of dangerous speculative fever...