Word: feverently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...glad cries with which you welcome and encourage a third world war is amazing. Hurrah, your format is changed, your reporters and photographers will risk their lives to get Americans to fever pitch for war. According to you, we acted "quickly and well." One is speechless before your God-given insight...
Dick Bissell, 37, is now the manager of a clothing factory in Dubuque and a settled citizen, but for a while he had river fever as bad as Huck Finn ever...
...When he reported for work on the towboat Inland Coal after being turned down by the Navy in 1942, he went aboard sardonically quoting from Moby Dick ("Call me Ishmael") at the tow-boat's second mate. But after he had finished his first year Joyce had river fever bad, had his sights set on a mate's job and even put river life above his girl. Of course he got the girl, wound up a pilot...
...last March, 50 people in the Pangrati section of Athens were seized with violent stomach pains, fever and nausea. It was found that they all bought their milk from Psofios. Police questioned Psofios, who insisted that his milk could not possibly be impure. Ten days later, Pangrati's first-aid stations and hospitals were again jammed by more than 150 men, women & children, all showing the same agonizing symptoms. Chemical analysis showed that they had been drinking milk poisoned by Trionol (a poisonous chemical used in Greece to clean marble and porcelain objects, including toilets). None of the victims...
...thought that the world's sick currencies were close to a complete cure-or might not suffer a relapse-but the drop in gold fever was the best news in months from the bedside...