Word: fevered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...naked power struggle with his "bourgeois" enemies is becoming so turbulent, in fact, that it is causing mounting concern among the countries around the Asian periphery. Communist North Korea had been carefully suppressing the news from China, lest its own youth catch the Red Guard fever. But last week it lashed out against Red Guard posters that reported a plot to overthrow the North Korean government. Cried Pyongyang: "An intolerable slander." Japan is disillusioned about its recent new moves toward Red China and fretful about its carefully cultivated and growing trade with the Chinese. Pakistan, which has beea edging toward...
...vicious falciparum type of malaria parasite is responsible for virtually all the malaria that strikes U.S. troops, despite their "Sunday pill" of chloroquine and pyrimethamine. These parasites even overcome the protective effect of a potent third antimalarial, dia-phenylsulfone (DOS), given to troops in the highlands. Falciparum's fever may be fatal if it attacks the brain. Last winter U.S. medics were saving nearly all their patients by intensive treatment with chloroquine and quinine, but 40% of the men suffered relapses...
Gregers Werle (Clayton Corzatte) is a man with a raging case of "integrity fever" who prates high-mindedly of "the claim of the ideal." His pinched nostrils seem to sniff moral pollution in the air. He abominates his widowed father, a pompous timber merchant, accusing him of real and fancied slights to his dead mother. Taking lodgings in the modest household of a former classmate, Hjalmar Ekdal (Donald Moffat), Gregers uncovers more extensive proof of his father's evil ways. Not only did he bring lifelong disgrace to Hjalmar's father through a crooked timber deal...
...turnabout reflects Ohio's unique natural assets for taking full advantage of the expansion fever that has gripped U.S. business. Strategically situated within a 500-mile reach of 67% of the nation's population, 72% of its purchasing power, and 78% of its manufacturing, Ohio is blessed with excellent transportation facilities, generally amicable labor relations, and some of the lowest utility rates of any state. Just as important, Republican Governor James A. Rhodes's administration has painstakingly projected the image of a state where "profit is not a dirty word...
...deepening economic chill, Britain has been swept with merger fever. Over the past few months, major deals have been made in aircraft and steel. Others are afoot in chemicals, electronics, autos and oil. But when the giant London-based British-American Tobacco Co. Ltd., joined in with a bid for Yardley & Co. Ltd., one of Britain's biggest and best-known perfume and cosmetics makers, all it got was a lather of dissent...