Word: feverently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...breathes a small proportion of all the molecules of nitrogen and oxygen are ionized by cosmic rays-they become positive ions if they lose an electron, negative ions if they gain one. Philadelphia researchers have found that almost two-thirds of hay fever victims won quick relief in air that was heavily negative-ionized, snuffled and sneezed far more in air that was artificially positive-ionized. As a result, Philco Corp. plans to market a negative-ionizing air conditioner. ¶Automobile-accident victims often report "brain concussions" and are admitted to hospitals for study, but in 30% of cases studied...
...want a Gujarat state!" they chanted as Nehru prepared to begin. The Prime Minister tried to banter with them. "I detect a sort of mild fever here." The chant persisted, so Nehru dug in. "The bilingual state of Bombay will come into being on November 1, and there is no power on earth which can flout the decision of Parliament," said he. From the audience came the roar: "It will not happen!" "You want to bet?" shouted Nehru, his face taut...
...been screwing down a metal band around it, and I was shaking like a leaf." He worked on. Next day, too nauseated to eat, Hickey felt the tightness return. He gave up, went on sick call. Doctors, unable to decide what ailed him, even sent him to a fever isolation ward before he ended up in the cardiac clinic of Walter Reed Army Hospital. Because his case was so tricky, the hospital called Presidential Cardiologist Thomas Mattingly for consultation. Colonel Mattingly had the diagnosis in jigtime: a rupture, creating a tunnel between the aorta and the right auricle...
...Congress denied a federal charter, believing that no good could come out of Rockefellers), promptly exploited the success in the South and sent out task forces against hookworm all over the world. New successes taught new methods of disease control, which the foundation flung into battle against yellow fever in Ecuador, scarlet fever in Rumania, dengue fever in Guam, malaria in Nicaragua. In Manhattan a Rockefeller scientist named Dr. Wilbur Sawyer developed the world's first effective anti-yellow-fever vaccine...
Personality: Six feet two, known as "Burly Bob to constituents, Menzies looks every inch the statesman. A renowned, mellifluous, graceful and witty orator, he disdains speechwriters, has immense personal courage and an effective way with interjectors (Australian for hecklers). Once, after delivering a speech in a 103° fever, he asked the Duke of Gloucester: "Sir, what did I talk about?" His Royal Highness replied: "My dear boy, I don't know, but it was damned good." After Menzies took office in 1939, a brash reporter asked: "I suppose you'll consult the powerful interests who control...