Word: feverently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eastern and Asian travellers, for example, should consult the Health Service about the necessity for typhus and cholera shots. Visitors to South America, Africa, and other tropical areas may have to be innoculated against yellow fever...
...lieutenant is the steady, intelligent, responsible leader of men; the sergeant is the gifted killer. On Director, Anthony Mann's restraining leash, Actors Ryan and Ray work with a held-back intensity that admirably suggests the low-grade, chronic anxiety that fighting men run like a fever...
...onlooker catches the fever, and with his camera Director Mann works insidiously to drive it up. Never for an instant does he let the moviegoer escape from the appalling situation the platoon is in. Never for an instant does the moviegoer know where he is-or where They are. He marches, hides, fights, watches every minute with the fighting men, and the watching is the worst. For as the watcher stares down his gunsights into the bright summer grasses, and the sun and the wind play mazily together in the barley and field flowers, and the watcher goes on waiting...
...most concerned with the problems of the ICBM, tall (6 ft. 2 in.), hard-eyed Ben Schriever (rhymes with fever) has the awesome job of developing an ICBM as a practical weapon of war before the Communists do. He lives with the gnawing awareness of what losing the ICBM race might mean. But General Schriever is a man who has always lived for victory rather than defeat. ("I hate to admit defeat in anything," he once remarked, without flamboyance.) Should he win his destiny-sized race for an operational ICBM, he believes, the U.S. will hold in its hands...
Huston soon puts a stop to this sort of fiddle-faddle. All at once enemy troops arrive, and the nun and the marine are forced to take refuge in a tiny cave. To make things more explicit, the nun comes down with a fever, and the marine is forced to undress her and wrap her in warm blankets. Having landed, he now seems to have the situation well in hand...