Word: fevered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Finance Chairman Bob Power-led off the parade to Salem, followed shortly by the director of the G.O.P. Senate Campaign Committee, Vic Johnston, and, most recently, by several leading Los Angeles County politicians. The Californians were impressed, and Hatfield is beginning to show all the signs of latent presidential fever...
...life and of a mother who died of tuberculosis when the boy was five. "I always felt," recalled Munch, "that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick and threatened with punishment in Hell." His own life was a succession of scandalously successful art shows, denounced for their "fever-sick hallucinations," of troubled love affairs, heavy drinking, instability, and finally nervous collapse. He spent the last 30 years of his life in semiseclusion in a large country house on the outskirts of Oslo, painting and refusing to sell his paintings. A few years before his nervous collapse, he painted Self...
...window. He ponders, writes his answer, pulls the lever again. The answer moves under glass (to prevent his changing it) and the correct answer appears. As the Skinnerian student clicks along, he concentrates fully on each item, advancing only when he is ready to answer. If he gets spring fever he may stop work, but at least he misses nothing, as he would in class. If he wants to soar ahead...
...swollen jaw. Give intramuscular injection of 500,000 units of penicillin combined with half gram of streptomycin morning and evening. Give only weak tea, orange juice, mineral water for 24 hours." After two days the Henri G. reported: "Patient seems better this morning. Yesterday evening pulse go fever 102 this morning pulse 70 temperature 98.6.'' More exchanges followed. Finally the Henri...
...hundreds of years merchant mariners dreaded illness or injury at sea almost as much as death-and often there was only a fine line between them. The crude, workaday rule became: "If the pain is above the waist, give aspirin; if below, give a purgative." The sailor with raging fever or shattered bones was lucky if he made port alive. If he was unlucky, his body was deep-sixed...