Word: fevered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Just for Insurance. Gizenga's team might well have been defeated in Parliament had Moise Tshombe allowed his delegation of seven Senators and eight Deputies to attend the session in Leopoldville. But Tshombe, between bouts of bush fever, was more interested in sowing discord at home and abroad. Imprisoned for two months by Kasavubu's central government, he had won release by promising Strongman Joseph Mobutu that he would merge his 11,600 army, officered by 634 Europeans, with that of the central government. Once back in Katanga, Tshombe assured his Cabinet that the agreement was only...
Although Dr. Frankl's theory was already formulated before he was sent to Auschwitz in 1944, his experiences in the concentration camps provided empirical confirmation for it. He himself, stricken with typhus fever attacks, strove to keep awake and alive by scribbling notes on scraps of paper in an attempt to rewrite the confiscated manuscript of his book. The Doctor and the Soul. "Only after my theory had undergone the acid test of the concentration camp did I feel it legitimate to propound an approach which constituted such a blow into the prevalent nihilism and fatalism. Meaning orientation keeps...
...year the largest diamond was discovered, yellow fever broke out in New Orleans, and George Bernard Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession was banned from Broadway. But in the inbred lore of baseball, 1905 will always be the year in which Manager Bill Armour of the Detroit Tigers, on a sultry afternoon in August, beckoned to a gawky, 18-year-old rookie who had arrived just the day before from Augusta, Ga. "Hey, Cobb," he shouted, "look alive, and start warming up. You take Dick Cooley's place in centerfield today...
...result, Britain, living beyond its means, has spent gold from its reserves to cover the gap five months in a row (at a time of the year when Britain is usually piling up gold). In world money marts, where a fraction of a cent can mean a fever crisis, the pound sterling's value has dropped from par $2.80 to $2.78 11/25, lowest point in four years. At home, the British worker's average wage has risen more than 4% in the past twelve months, while the nation's industrial output has barely moved...
...Fever Pitch, by David Caute. For obvious reasons, British writers are tops when it conies to describing disintegrating empires, in this case, Africa...