Word: fever
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...auction business is booming as more and more Americans catch art-collecting fever...
...past; the top firms hold several simultaneous sales a day six days a week. In 1979 Sotheby's and Christie's, the two London-based giants of the international fine arts auction business, together have netted $702 million worldwide. Nor does anyone expect recession to cool the fever. Some indicators...
...Antonio raised hopes that the hostage situation might now be resolved. Earlier in the week, that seemed a remote possibility. The Shah's health had taken a turn for the worse. Aides reported to Washington that he had been sick to his stomach and was running a fever. At Carter's request, Drs. Benjamin Kean and Hibbard Williams, who had treated the Shah in New York City, flew to Lackland to examine him. They prescribed undisclosed therapy for his enlarged spleen but concluded there was no medical problem that would prevent his traveling to Panama...
...court circles became so enamored of haute cuisine that a serious food shortage developed. The rage persisted under James' daughter and successor, Mary Queen of Scots. Marmalade is said to have been invented by the royal chef as a pick-me-up when Mary came down with a fever after a cold night tryst with her lover; the orangey concoction was named Marie malade. (A more prosaic version traces marmalade to marmelo, the Portuguese word for quince, the original ingredient.) Leg of mutton is still known by its French name, gigot, though it is pronounced "jiggott." A superb chicken...
...months later, the pair were married. For an Army wife, there was never a permanent home. "I have kept house in everything but an igloo," Mamie once said. "I long to unpack my furniture some place and stay forever." Their first child, Doud Dwight, died at three of scarlet fever. A second son, John, has had an Army career...