Word: fevered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...adjournment fever gripped the Hill, a constant flow of bills shuttled between the Capitol's wings, to be acted on within hours by both House and Senate. Energetically sweeping out the legislative leftovers, the two houses sped through dozens of bypassed bills on matters ranging from authorization to fly the U.S. flag 24 hours a day in Lexington, Mass., to approving medals for the 250th anniversary of San Antonio...
...Hollywood cabaret called, embarrassingly, It-all flickered feebly and failed. She retired to live with her husband, Cowboy Actor Rex Bell (later Lieutenant Governor of Nevada), on Bell's 350,000-acre ranch near Searchlight, Nev., and raised their two sons in complete obscurity. She took the fever of the '20s with her. Throughout the next three decades she was in and out of sanatoriums, continually racked with insomnia, often unable to speak coherently or recognize old friends. Every Christmas she wrote to Louella Parsons in a shaky backhand scrawl, "Do you remember...
Last week, still battling sleeplessness, Clara Bow suddenly stiffened and collapsed with a heart attack as she watched television at her home in West Los Angeles. By the time her nurse could summon help, the '20s fever was over...
Thousands of allergists and millions of patients have long "known" that hay-fever shots are beneficial. More cautious scientists have waited for reliable proof - which is hard to come by because 1) like all allergies, ragweed pollinosis is mixed up with emotional problems, and many patients think they feel better if they get any sort of treatment at all; and 2) symptoms vary as unpredictably as shifts in the wind...
...difficult to corner and classify that their very name is vague-PPLO (for pleuropneumonia-like organisms). But these days that name keeps popping up in lab reports from all over the world.* The baffling microbes have already been indicted for complicity in causing diseases ranging from puerperal (childbed) fever to the "viral pneumonia" that afflicts so many recruits in boot camps. Now they are even being suspected as a possible cause of cancer...