Word: fevered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...planks on job subsidies and fighting unemployment. Some delegations, like Ohio, bitterly resented the decision. Several others called the trailer to object. "It's tough," said Strauss to Jordan. "A lot of these guys broke their backs for us." Finally the time had run out, the Kennedy fever on the floor was holding at a peak. Strauss and Jordan had no time to call the President to ask for directions; they had to move on their...
...Tokyo pediatrician named Tomisaku Kawasaki, now 55, was struck by something unusual. Several of his patients at the Japan Red Cross medical center had the symptoms of scarlet fever, yet did not respond to penicillin. In the next years Kawasaki spotted similar cases. By 1967 he was convinced that he was seeing a new illness, one that mostly struck children under five, and could only be diagnosed by a combination of distinct symptoms. Among them: high fever persisting for five or more days, congested blood vessels in the eye, skin rashes, enlarged lymph nodes in the neck, peeling...
Remember Howard Jarvis and Proposition 13? Well, like roller disco, tax fever has spread to the East Coast. Actually, Proposition 2 1/2 is a state measure, designed to severely limit property taxes, higher here than in any other state. But if the law passes, and current indications are that voters will approve the measure, Cambridge is in for more trouble than most Bay State communities...
This admirable revival at off-Broadway's Roundabout Theater honors all concerned. Malcolm McDowell stalks the boards with the frustrated fury of a caged lion. There is a poignant dignity in Banes' Alison, a fever in the loins of Brill's Helena, and Hardie's Cliff is the sort of buddy you would want in the front lines. -T.E.K...
...which the disease is named come in some 70 varieties, most of them noninfectious to humans. Those harmful to people cause birth defects, chicken pox and shingles, and mononucleosis (the "kissing disease"). The ones implicated in venereal disease are herpes simplex types 1 and 2. The first type triggers fever blisters, or cold sores, around the mouth: it is also an agent in various eye ailments that can, if untreated, lead to blindness. The second usually shows up in the genital area of both sexes, and sometimes on the thighs and buttocks. Both types can be transmitted between mouth...