Word: fever
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Iran is by now accustomed to fever charts of brinkmanship, and the crisis suddenly dissolved. After being guaranteed safe passage to Syria, the airport skyjackers released their hostages unharmed. Attorney General Shahshahani then rescinded his no-arrest order. And the Bazargan Cabinet, following a conference in Qum with the country's real government, the secret Islamic Revolutionary Council appointed by the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, carried on the affairs of state by announcing the nationalization of all major businesses and industries in Iran...
...fever has spread to Massachusetts, where Carl Olson, president of the Bay State Retail Gasoline Dealers Association, estimates that "there are 30 million gallons rolling around in automobile tanks that would normally be in the pumps." Local officials, including police chiefs, must make sure that at least one station in each locality remains open between 7 a.m. and 10 p.m. A hot line has been installed to tell callers which stations are pumping. Dealers can request gas from the state's set-aside reserve for weekend operation, but police must first verify that they are maintaining the weekend service...
...there anything exclusively Soviet about the phenomenon of a leader who tries to govern-and negotiate-despite the encroachments of a fatal illness. During the Paris Peace Conference in April 1919, Woodrow Wilson succumbed to severe fever and gastrointestinal illness. He tried to conduct diplomatic business from bed, but issued irrational and contradictory orders and thought the French servants waiting on him were spies. The episode may well have presaged the massive stroke six months later that left him physically and, to a large extent, politically disabled. For the rest of his presidency-and indeed his life-Wilson...
Compared with the other proposals given serious consideration by administrators--quarantining students until they recovered enough to take the exam, scheduling make-ups over spring vacation, or requiring some physical proof of illness such as a high fever before granting a medical excuse--the asterisk proposal seems especially levelheaded...
...played pretty well," Dales, who only double bogied twice, said yesterday. "My biggest problem was some hay fever. But since I was playing well, it didn't affect me that much." He added that he had no problems with the 90-degree temperatures yesterday...