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Word: fevered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Reign of Terror and opened a fresh era of calm and consolidation. It was the year II in the new French revolutionary calendar, and the month was named Thermidor. In his classic analysis, The Anatomy of Revolution, the late Harvard historian Crane Brinton called Thermidor "a convalescence from the fever of revolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: BUILD, BABY, BUILD: WHY THE SUMMER WAS QUIET | 9/12/1969 | See Source »

...most effective drug against typhoid fever, psittacosis and Rocky Mountain spotted fever, but commonly misused for minor infections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pharmacology: Drugs from the Sea | 9/5/1969 | See Source »

...gnawing holes in buildings and contaminating food, Texarkana's rats cause about $3 million of damage a year. With their eleven internal parasites and 18 kinds of fleas, they expose people to rat-bite fever, murine typhus, bubonic plague and other diseases. Yet the city's residents have become appallingly adapted to the rats. As one retired Negro farmer casually puts it: "They play like ants behind my house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cities: Rats' Alley | 8/15/1969 | See Source »

...good health and at the distance of art Mayer still confronts the horror obliquely--through understatement, burlesque, and nonchalance. But do not be misled by these devices into doubting the seriousness of Mayer's purpose. The wail of fear drones in the songs (some of which, like "Cat Scratch Fever," recur in his shows as anthems), in the abruptness of the pacing and in the roller-coaster whirling of the stage machinery. In Job as in Jesus the references, the allusions, the modulations of mood may be too rapid--the whole production too visually and verbally dense--to be digested...

Author: By Charles F. Sable, AT THE AGASSIZ, AUGUST 14-16, 19-23 | Title: Job | 8/15/1969 | See Source »

...sign switch": intended to be actuated by the mere movement of an astronaut's eyes so that his hands will be free, it has already been installed in a motorized wheelchair for paraplegics. The space suits may be useful for lowering body temperature in cases of extremely high fever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Moon: Spin-Offs from Space | 8/1/1969 | See Source »

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