Word: feverently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...yogis have claimed to be able to control the heart, there are no well-documented cases in medical literature of an individual's stopping his own heart at will. What enables Mechanic Hansen to turn the trick is still a mystery. As a youth he suffered from rheumatic fever, once overheard the family doctor tell his parents: "Your boy will never live to be 20." Now the father of a 20-year-old son, Hansen lives with a heart condition and the boyhood-inspired fear that his heart may stop beating. To prevent this, he says that he hopes...
...McClure believes that Hansen's unusual ability to control his heartbeat is related to rheumatic-fever damage, and "is just an exaggeration of the normal degree of control which any person's mind has over his heart actions...
There is still hatred in Algeria, but increasingly it is the isolated, furtive exception of the Frenchwoman rather than the general fever that prevailed before De Gaulle stepped in a year ago. Two years ago the explosion in the Rue d'Isly would have brought the paratroopers out in force, perhaps led to dozens of arrests, or might have set European mobs to rioting against Moslems in reprisal for terrorist outrages. But last month, an hour after the grenade blast, the crowds on the Rue d'Isly were as thick as ever; most Europeans looked upon the wreckage...
...second year opened with a Student Council blast at the working of Lowell's tutorial system. Critical only of the system's application, the report praised it in theory and called for its extension into new areas. But football fever, not tutor-student relations filled the Fall...
Swiss bankers publicly condemn such tipsters. Privately, the bankers contribute to the profitable buying fever. They commonly margin buyers at 30% to 40% or even less (the rigid U.S. margin rate: 90%). Their standard excuse for such easy terms is that all but a few listed European companies are so solidly rooted that a bust is unthinkable...