Word: fevered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sock, nourishes it on ground-up cockroaches. Relatives of other prisoners start sending them canaries. Soon the entire isolation block is trilling, and convicts who get bored with their pets give them to Stroud to keep. With painstaking perfectionism, he fashions cages out of packing crates. A septic fever epidemic decimates his aviary. He pores over biology books, concocts trial-and-error medicines until he discovers a cure. With the help of a bird-loving widow (Betty Field), he markets the medicines...
...Nelson Rockefeller, California's Pat Brown and Ohio's Michael Di Salle-all running for re-election this fall-added their voices to the chorus. Within the Administration itself, the President's own Council of Economic Advisers kept pressing for immediate and substantial reductions. The fever spread to the press, inspiring countless editorials and cartoons. The New York Mirror topped a cut-taxes edi torial with the headline...
...shock of not having the family doctor at the other end of the telephone was abruptly brought home on the first day of the strike. When Mrs. Vicky Derhousoff put her nine-month-old son Carl to bed in their home at Usherville, he was running a fever. Next morning the fever was higher. Peter Derhousoff tried to phone the doctors in nearby Preeceville, was told that both were on vacation. A nurse at the Preeceville Hospital told him to take the baby to Yorkton, 91 miles away. On the road, says Derhousoff, "I began to realize...
Died. John Ireland. 82, gentle, white-haired English composer of songs, chamber, piano and organ music, anthems and orchestral pieces, who put poems to music (his most popular: from Masefield's Sea-Fever) but shied away from longer works because "you must have a very good opinion of yourself to write a symphony"; after a long illness; in Washington, Sussex, England...
...standard lower academic kind, but the Herzes are more than usually miserable. He is Jewish, she was born Catholic, and their bitter parents cut off both love and loans when they married. Worse, Libby is a sickly girl, the sort whose pale beauty is best set off by fever, and whose malfunctioning organs-kidneys, in her case-take on a presence of their own in the house, like an old aunt's false teeth or an off-duty cop's revolver...