Word: feverently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Belgian authorities prefer to call them) will be extended to Elisabethville and Jadotville, the largest towns in the mining province of Katanga. Next in line: Stanleyville, Bukavu, Luluabourg, Matadi. But not even unlimited economic opportunity can still the demand for political expression, which runs through Africa like a fever. Said one Congolese last week: "This didn't come soon enough, and it isn't enough...
...Catching the same sort of fever that heated up Rice and Notre Dame, a couple of underdogs engineered a couple of astonishing upsets. Already beaten out of the Ivy League title, Yale put on a spectacular aerial attack to trip Princeton, 20-13. Running out of a winged-T, Mississippi's Rebels showed the kind of power they were supposed to see in Tennessee's single wing and ran over the Volunteers, 14-7. Among the even-money choices, Ohio State squeaked past Iowa 17-13 and earned a trip to the Rose Bowl to play Oregon, conqueror...
...bilking seven Baptist churches of some $93,000 worth of building bonds, explained that he had to finance his trips to Las Vegas dice tables in order to win money to keep up payments on his new Cadillac, yacht, house trailer and jeep, told police he got the "gambling fever" after "I started pitching quarters...
Back from a ten-week tour of Eastern Europe, the New York Times's former Moscow Correspondent Harrison Salisbury reported last week that a comparable intellectual fever of unease was raging in nearly every one of Russia's European satellites. Reported Salisbury: "This does not mean that the literate spokesmen of these countries reject socialism or a socialist society. For most of them this is still the ideal. But they want a socialism founded on democracy, morality, principles and concern...
With the same energy, Bovet threw himself into work on a new problem. "I was fascinated," he says, "by the fact that in nature, in the human body, no product existed to counteract the excessive effects of histamine." These effects are allergic reactions such as hay fever and hives. From 1937 to 1941 Bovet did 3,000 experiments, worked out the chemical formulas on which are based most of the infinite variety of antihistamines now widely prescribed...