Word: feverently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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UNCLE SAM is sick. He has a bad case of "depressionitis." He has a pain in his economy and he has jobless fever and chills. The dangerous germ that has brought Uncle Sam to bed is the neglect of the family farm...
Even in stable Lebanon, the fever of Pan-Arabism that Nasser had loosed in the Middle East ran dangerous and strong. Said the newspaper L'Orient: "The country finds itself in a situation which literally calls for a war Cabinet-war for internal peace and order...
...space fever renews itself before daylight each morning, when long necklaces of auto headlights form along the highways that lead to Cape Canaveral's heavily guarded gates. Security guards check for pink windshield stickers, examine badges, wave the privileged on to their work. Construction workers peel off toward half-finished launching facilities. Others spike off to hangars, laboratories, snack wagons and a hundred separate sites. At the lox plant, they run the machinery that daily chews up a chunk of damp Florida air and transforms it into 75 tons of liquid oxygen...
...bureaucracy. In 1952 Micheline Vernhes, wife of a Casablanca industrialist, took her five-year-old daughter Peggy to Paris' Hopital Trousseau. Doctors recommended this public hospital, rather than a more comfortable private clinic, because of better lab facilities in treating Peggy's nearly hopeless case of rheumatic fever...
...Though usually a mild disease, Asian flu can kill rapidly, without intervening pneumonia. Paradoxically, this occurs most often among young adults. One hospitalized Briton, 30, had no fever, told the house physician he "felt fine," then died within a few minutes. There has been a handful of such cases...