Word: feverently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hardest-working candidate of all, and the one with most at stake, was handsome former Premier Constantine Karamanlis, 51. Despite fever, coughs and stomachaches, he had traveled some 4,000 miles across Greece by plane, train, ship and car, raised his stentorian voice in all but six of the 55 electoral districts in Greece. Karamanlis had brought on the new elections himself by resigning his premiership as an answer to dissidents in his own party whose defection cost him his parliamentary majority. Under a caretaker government appointed by his strong supporter King Paul. Karamanlis helped ram through a new electoral...
Young Wisconsin Lawyer Haskell could fight-and write. He played a distinguished personal part in repe ling Pickett's Charge, and weeks later, the fever of battle still hot in him, he wrote his account of Gettysburg. It is the classic of its kind. Previously snatched up in limited editions as a buff's bonanza, and quoted by virtually all scholars of the battle for its vivid closeups of the thick of things, it now comes for the first time to the popular Civil War book market. The original gets tasteful, unobtrusive editing by Bruce (A Stillness...
...opposition charged that the government's list of registered voters excluded the names of thousands of independence supporters. Though the government reopened the lists, it closed the Ghana border, to stem the flow of pro-independence ideas from that newly independent state next door. Nevertheless, the nationalist fever mounted. "Ablodé! Ablodé! Ablodé!" (Freedom! Freedom! Freedom!) shouted nationalist speakers; the crowds roared back, "Wolo o wogebé o, milahoe!" (No matter what they...
...chills and fever she died, of fever and chills...
...combination of spring fever and dissatisfaction with House assignments precipitated a minor riot in the Yard last night. Although no injuries were reported, many of the participants lost their bursar's cards, and at least one proctor hinted at further disciplinary action...