Word: fevered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week long, Peking throbbed with the fever of crisis. A sea of demonstrators jammed the streets carrying red banners and pictures of Chairman Mao Tse-tung. Mao himself turned up briefly at one rally and was greeted by the singing of the nation's newest hit, We Rely on the Helmsman When We Sail the Ocean. After he left, crowds rushed forward to try to shake the hands of those who had shaken hands with...
...people-including a record 80,000 at a single New York Philharmonic performance-who have heard jazz, band music, folk-rock, opera, orchestral music, and even a Dutch street organ huffing Strauss waltzes. None of this activity absolutely guarantees that the park will be forever immune to the fever of fear and violence that it has felt in other summers, but City Parks Commissioner Thomas Hoving, with support from foundations, business firms and the municipal treasury, has taken a big step in making the park safe with the sounds of music-and good music at that...
...Begun when the author was 13 and rewritten intermittently for more than a decade, Moss transpires in the mind and immediate vicinity of a white-trash waif. The girl's mother, a cold-eyed prostitute, abandons her, and her father, a warm-hearted Cherokee Indian, dies of rabbit fever. Desperate, she seeks in nature the tenderness she needs, and imagines the lost meaning of her life in bizarre epiphanies: a glimpse of flowers growing in a dead mule, an encounter with an albino Negro boy who "ain't got biddie brains in his head...
...lady is symbolic of supremacy in the world's most popular sport, football-or soccer, as it is known in the U.S. This week, as the teams move into the final contests for the World Cup, the world is gripped by perhaps the most severe case of football fever in history...
...Chloramphenicol (Chloromycetin), though one of the most dangerous drugs in wide use, is by far the best for typhoid fever. In the Philippines, among 408 charity patients suffering from typhoid, chloramphenicol was deliberately withheld from 157, of whom 36 died. Only 20 died among the 251 who got the standard treatment. By statistical deduction, 23 patients died needlessly for the sake of the study...