Word: feverently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wildest shoot currently burgeoning from the royal family tree, accident-prone Edward, Duke of Kent, 20, seventh in line for the throne of England, was afflicted by spring fever on a madcap evening in London aboard a pleasure boat moored in the Thames. When the revelry dulled, two fully clad male wassailers, inspired by ?5 wagers, went over the side into the noisome drink. As the vessel was cut loose from its moorings, the other guests, led by the huzzahing duke, chucked hats, umbrellas, dead champagne bottles, blossoms and most of the boat's lifebelts to the dunked...
...Ohio Penitentiary at Columbus, long noted as the place where O. Henry blossomed as a writer,*and the scene of a 1930 fire that killed 320 inmates, won favorable attention not long ago for the prisoners' willingness to volunteer for tularemia (rabbit fever) experiments and to donate skin for victims of severe burns...
Unnerved by the river people's fatalistic fortitude and inexplicable joys, the American takes to his bunk with a psychosomatic sort of fever. There, Su-ling, almond-eyed wife of the junk owner, feeds him broths plus the harsh poetic lore of the "Ten-Thousand Mile River." Once well, the engineer excitedly spills hints of his company's plan to harness the river, tame its power, eliminate the backbreaking tasks of the trackers. Su-ling is horrified at the American's impiety in even thinking of tampering with the sacred Great River, and begs him to breathe...
...Army doctors from Walter Reed Hospital have discovered a method for preventing Q fever, a pneumonialike disease spread by inhalation of dust contaminated by diseased animals. Oral Terramycin, given late in the 17-day incubation period after exposure, proved 100% successful in preventing disease symptoms...
Taken by themselves, these evils might perhaps be survived. But what sends Mills's fever up is his conviction that he smells something-perhaps not a plot, but surely a tacit and cynical understanding among the big-corporation heads, the "warlords" and the "very rich" to take the country away from the common man. This is big; this is cold, naked power wielded by mindless giants who make life-and-death decisions without moral or intellectual regard for the consequences. Success no longer matters, because to achieve success today is to admit one's moral bankruptcy...