Word: feverently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First to fall ill was a Cleveland social worker. Her symptoms fitted infectious mononucleosis. also called glandular fever. This is a little-understood (presumably viral) infection that is maddeningly persistent but rarely fatal, sometimes runs like a plague through institutions. That is what it did. Nurses at the hospital were soon dropping like flies: ten one day, 15 another. With 56 nurses and 23 other staff members out. the famed old Royal Free had to shut its doors for the first time in its history, transferred most of its 240 patients to other hospitals...
...construction and public-housing programs, still hanging fire, the leaders of the U.S. House of Representatives gave up in their efforts to adjourn by the end of July, last week began aiming for Aug. 6. But among the rank and file there was a sure sign that virulent adjournment fever, symptomized by extreme irritability, had set in; two of the members came to blows...
WHAT constitutes a good political issue-and which party is right in appraising the mood of the American people? This question has just been crystallized by the attitude taken by both parties toward the problem of government ownership of all electric power facilities. In Britain the public ownership fever, known as "nationalization," has about run its course. There are evidently leaders of the Democratic party who think they can strike pay dirt in the issue of public power. What needs to be re-examined is how far the Democratic party wants to go in committing itself to government ownership...
...Fever Tension. NBC's March of Medicine (sponsored by Smith, Kline & French Laboratories and the American Medical Association) televised the removal of a tumor from a woman's breast. The camera was a straightforward reporter, blinking its impersonal eye at nothing. The sober absence of melodramatics intensified the drama of the operation. The TV audience knew that this was the real thing, taking place at Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, D.C. Viewers were also told that if the tumor proved malignant, the operation would continue with the removal of the unidentified woman's breast...
...placed in a pneumatic tube, and 45 seconds later it had traveled 2,000 feet to the laboratory. There before another camera, a pathologist examined it under a microscope, ticking off the tumor's characteristics in a matter-of-fact tone. At this point the tension was fever high. Was the tumor cancerous? The pathologist finally said, hesitantly at first, then with conviction: "It's benign. Yes, it's benign...