Word: fevered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Australia woos "new blokes" through lavish advertising campaigns and a big network of immigration officers throughout Britain. But this does not explain the British migration fever. Canada, which actively solicits only professional workers such as nurses and scientists and does not subsidize their passage, expects the 1963 influx from Britain to be double or triple last year's 16,055 total. New Zealand immigration officials say that they too have had a "fantastic" surge of applications. "We're just trying to hold them off," says one. "We just don't have all that much room." One-third...
...spring meant revival of that heady atmosphere they call "Après De Gaulle.'' With presidential elections just two years away, it has simultaneously occurred to many pundits that De Gaulle may become ill, die, be assassinated, or just decide not to run. The infectious presidential fever has spread to all parties. On the non-Gaullist side, possible candidates range from Antoine Pinay (at 71, he may be too old) to the last Premier of the Fourth Republic, Pierre Pflimlin, to the glib Radical spokesman, Maurice Faure. The Socialists have contenders in veteran Guy Mollet and the shrewd...
...superstition. It takes only one oddball muttering "Those pills will make you sterile, buddy," and rumor buzzes around the base. Great quantities of medicine get flushed down the toilets. Penicillin was whispered to impair potency. Recruits who were supposed to take it daily as a preventive against rheumatic fever often spat out the tablets after they had passed the issue line...
...comes to an isolated village to run the post office and finds, as a legacy from lis predecessor, a wistful ten-year-old girl who is to be his servant. He teaches her to read and write; when he falls ill with malaria, she nurses him through his fever. He asks for a transfer back to the city and she hides, sobbing, when his replacement arrives. The departing postmaster walks slowly away from the village, calling to the girl to say goodbye. She appears, carrying a heavy pail of water, and looks silently at the ground, tears streaking her face...
...while the nation's campuses seethed with spring fever, Harvard was relatively quiet. The would-be panty seekers found themselves locked out, finally resorted to chasing a lone 'Cliffie to Eliot Hall where they gained entrance. But the group had little idea of how to obtain panties and left shortly after, offering their bursar's cards in an ignominious gesture of surrender to waiting police...