Word: feverently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Possessed by Duty. Major Philip Baldwin is a rear-echelon engineer officer with a fever for field duty. He volunteers to command a seven-man demolition team whose main target is the twisting mountain road along which all vehicles, including his own and the pursuing Japanese, must travel. The road is an undulating mass of Chinese refugees moving in grim lockstep with fear, famine and misery. In their eyes, the Americans are the dei ex machina shielded from fatality by the jeep, the SCR-300 radio and the K-ration...
Ageless Charmer Maurice Chevalier offered in Manhattan a restrained Gallic comment on le rock 'n' roll americain: "It belongs to the fever of this time, but it will pass because you can't spend a lifetime doing that...
Detroit's fever spread fast. Car dealers in 245 U.S. cities were cranking up hardsell campaigns for April or May. Their slogan: "You Auto Buy Now." Many will stage horn-tooting parades through downtown areas, will serve free coffee to all comers in the showrooms, will trim some prices. (Ford cut prices $15 and $16 on some Fairlane models to bring them in line with Chevrolet prices...
From healthy subjects, Dr. Price got virtually identical patterns. From those with rheumatic fever he got a different pattern. From tuberculosis victims it was different again, and so on down a long list of physical and mental illnesses, including cancer and various heart diseases. Though hopeful, Dr. Price and colleagues were cautious. It will probably take five years to decide whether the telltale test tubes are truthful, and whether they tell the same story to different physicians reading the results...
...their effort to treating disease, especially emotional disorders, with prolonged sleep. This has not paid off too well, the anonymous authors of the plan conceded. Prolonged, drug-induced sleep "cannot be used as a universal therapeutic measure," partly because sometimes the cure is worse than the disease-it causes fever or anemia...