Word: fevered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...outsmarting the SS, avoiding Budapest's brownshirts. One day his mother had bundled him into the house of a "courageous acquaintance," where they sweated out the pogroms of 1944. He saw his father return from the labor camps on the Eastern front, a proud, garrulous man shriveled by typhoid fever and chilled by pneumonia. Boys at school mocked him: before the war as a Jew, after the war because his father was a businessman (a dairyman, but that was enough). In his government file the boy was already an "enemy of the classes." He wasn't going to wait...
...coli--the bacteria responsible for "hamburger disease"--produces a poison that damages the lining of the intestine. Common symptoms include dehydration, fever and stomach cramps, but severe complications can lead to death...
...cost of capital may have been East Asia's undoing. Cheap money can make people do silly things. In the 1980s it led them to pay ridiculous prices for stocks and real estate, and the fever spread from Tokyo to Bangkok. But even after the Japanese bubble burst, the experts on the Asian model justified similar excesses around the region because we were on the cusp of the Asian Century, one of limitless growth. The vaunted technocrats thought--or perhaps hoped--that they could once more invoke the Asian model to wipe away the looming mess. Only recently have most...
...people come on drugs to Harvard," Rosenthal says. "They have a fever, they have antibiotics. They develop resistance to antibiotics...
...cold comfort in cold cash. Which is why a sardonic God invented negligence lawyers. Russell Banks, author of the novel from which Atom Egoyan derived The Sweet Hereafter, has, however, improved on His handiwork, creating in Mitchell Stephens (Ian Holm) a man who chases settlements with a chills-and-fever passion that can be explained not by greed but by the suppurating wounds life has inflicted on him. The man, whom Holm plays with superbly controlled fanaticism, wants compensation from an unfair universe but finds momentary relief in squeezing more readily available targets...