Word: feverently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eden Suffers Fever Attack...
LONDON, Feb. 19--Sir Anthony Eden, 59, who resigned as prime minister last month because of ill health, has suffered two attacks of fever aboard the ship taking him to a New Zealand holiday, government sources reported today...
...nesting fever rises, Judy develops some even more outrageous symptoms. One minute she kicks her husband (Richard Conte) out of bed; the next she asks him with a pathetic whine why he always wants to sleep alone. "Look at me," she wails. "I'm a big fat cow." But she is furious when her husband does not contradict her. She is even madder when he chats at the fence with the girl next door. "You're carrying on with that-bffrllggrhaphut!" The next minute, overwhelmed by bacteriophobia, she starts scrubbing the kitchen floor for the fourth time that...
...doer in private as well as public life. He married twice and fathered 17 children (the last when he was 80). At the age of 74 he eagerly met the challenge of Panama, and the result was a fiasco. Age had bred in him not mellowness but arrogance. Yellow fever, corruption and his own stubbornness (he insisted on building a canal without locks despite the mountains and rivers the waterway must cross) ruined the project after ten years of exhausting labor. De Lesseps was forced to admit defeat, and only the selfless courage of his son Charles, who took...
Despite his burnished Jamaica tan, Eden was still a very sick man. In Jamaica he had suffered a recurrence of fever and of the stomach trouble for which he had earlier been operated on three times-the last time in a delicate and rare operation to remove an obstacle in the bile duct, at Boston's famed Lahey Clinic in 1953. Reports trickled back from the Caribbean that he had sometimes waked shouting in the night. At Cabinet meetings, colleagues noticed that his cheeks were hollow, his face lined, his eyes tired and lackluster. "He could still lose...