Word: feverently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lived alone in a Milan attic. Though her dress might be patched, elderly women neighbors noted that her underwear was always immaculate-and Giuseppina had a liking for pink underskirts. She was wearing one of these when, just after the Christmas holidays, Neighbor Astorria Alessi found her delirious with fever and pneumonia, arranged to get her into Milan's huge (2,274-bed) Niguarda Hospital...
...Helen helped with the younger children, worked in the office, developed a cheery personality that belied her tenuous hold on life. Every two months (in recent years) she has received four pints of blood, a half-pint on alternate days to cut down the severity of her chills-and-fever reaction to transfusions. She has responded surprisingly well to the transfusion routine. "It still hurts, but I'm a good girl about it," she says. Understandably, Helen was poster girl for the 1956 American Red Cross blood drive...
...floor or a bigger office was the infallible sign of a rising executive. Today the management comer is more apt to find himself sent back to school with a pack of pencils and instructions to sharpen his potential. The new corporate fad-or what one executive calls "a fever sweeping industry"-was started to combat the shortage of executives by trying to force-feed talent in the classroom instead of waiting for it to grow naturally in the office. In 1957 alone, industry sent an estimated 300,000 executives back to school in hopes that they would learn...
...history, chopped back production 5%. Appliances, autos, machine tools all felt a slowdown. Private housing starts dropped 10% to less than 1,000,000 new houses, for the first time since 1947. And as freight-car loadings fell 16% at year's end, railroads were in such a fever to cut rising costs and bolster sagging profits that the Pennsylvania and the New York Central, giants of the industry, talked longingly of merger...
...Diamond Fever. Helena's father was the son of an English doctor named Dayrell who had settled in Brazil because he had a "weak chest." Her mother was one of ten daughters of a Brazilian who married off his girls without their leave by the simple process of interviewing the proposing swains. Helena records family stories of how the girls "used to peek through the keyhole and tell each other, 'I think that so-and-so's mine.' " Helena's mother was one of only two who married for love, and it was-as charmingly...