Word: fevered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Coup Fever. The transformation began several weeks ago when the slackening of ground action became apparent. And although individual acts of terrorism continued, the threat of indiscriminate rocketing ebbed. No rockets have plummeted into Saigon, in fact, since Aug. 22. Despite a brief attack of coup fever last month, the government of President Nguyen Van Thieu displayed more and more confidence. Then the rumors of a complete bombing halt swept Saigon, the terror stopped, and peace fever prevailed...
...hike came very late, in view of the economy's inflationary fever. Moreover, Congress abdicated its purse string power by insisting that the Administration cut $6 billion from expenditures. This may be a more important shift in congressional philosophy than the end of the long-standing alliance between Republicans and Southern conservatives, achieved by the new G.O.P. leadership's policy of offering alternatives, rather than merely saying...
...rebels and black riots is the fear of crime against the individual, of "the prowlers and muggers and marauders," in Nixon's words. No one questions that crime is growing. The issue is just how much, and whether the election-year emphasis on it is exaggerated. The primary fever gauge is the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports. The last full-year figures, for 1967, show an absolute 16.5% increase over the previous year in the offenses covered. The crime rate, taking
...Service officials predict that the new flu, a variant of the A-2 that triggered a global epidemic in 1957 and killed 19,000, will cause, in healthy victims, illnesses similar to those resulting from earlier strains of A2. Average severity: two to five days of aches, pains and fever. For the elderly and infirm, however, A-2/Hong Kong/68 poses a threat to life. With this in mind, PHS experts have advised physicians to give inoculations of either old or new vaccine only to persons who run the risk of severe complications when they come down with winter...
...similar to man's and might therefore serve as a source of raw material. More surprisingly, New York University's Dr. Felix T. Rapaport reported that a similar antigen can be extracted from some of the common streptococci. These are the microbes that cause "strep throats," scarlet fever, rheumatic fever, and a severe form of kidney disease...