Word: fevered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...three cardmakers battle among themselves, they also keep an eye on about 300 smaller manufacturers, which are often daring and inventive. Says Hallmark Chairman Donald Hall: "Industries that aren't competitive get stagnant after a while. Ours is very competitive, and the fever of creativity is at a high point...
...GENTEE1L CORNER of upper-class England in the 1920's the symptoms of ordinary Spring Fever erupt into a full blown case of Hayfever, Noel Coward's comic nightmare of what happens when English society goes native for the weekend. It might be called a comedy of manners. Bad manners...
...Really. But there is something about a New England winter that makes me really desperate for warm, sunny weather. And I think that five months of freezing rain makes most people feel the same way. In fact almost all of us display a few of the symptoms of spring fever. It is, after all, called spring finals. And we do have our spring formals just about...
Imagine this courtyard full of carefree, scantily clad young people, and then realize that once again New England weather has played a sadistic trick. For what we have here is a mob of goose bumpy, shivering, bluish victims of spring fever. Poor fools myself included who insist that it is spring just because the calendar tells us that it is April Just the other morning Rich Heller wisely warned us that it was going to be only partly sunny and that although it might be in the 60's inland, those near the coast must grapple with 50 degree weather...
...moment I started writing this article it became srring We're talking blue skies, flowers, shorts spontaneous games of frisbee and yes even temperatures rising into the 80's Even though I realize that this is all very well and good for our emotional well being, our spring fever finally cured, it does leave me in rather a lurch for an ending. Well, all I can say is enjoy spring while it lasts. Because knowing New England, it will be summer in a few days And then you'll be sorry...