Word: feverently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yellow fever," says Dr. Fred L. Soper, director of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau, "is not a dead duck. It has not been conquered, and it has not been eliminated as a permanent threat to the U.S." U.S. public-health officers, who thought they had closed the book on yellow fever long ago, are being warned not to take recent U.S. immunity for granted. Town-dwelling mosquitoes, Aëdes aegypti, which carry the virus, are found in a continuous belt reaching from El Salvador through Mexico and into much of the U.S. Most of the U.S. South...
Most recent outbreaks of yellow fever in the Americas have been spread by native, jungle-dwelling mosquitoes that cannot be wiped out with DDT. The fever has hit mostly jungle-dwelling people, who cannot all be vaccinated (because the vaccine cannot stand heat, and refrigeration is impossible in the wilds of Central America). But last year's outbreak in Trinidad showed how easily the disease can leap from jungle to town. Army medics point out that the southern U.S., swarming with Aêdes aegypti and unvaccinated people, would be a prime target for bacteriological warfare with yellow-fever...
...Speedey Deselution." Byron made Italy his home for seven years before proceeding to Greece with the little army of men whom he paid out of his own pocket to fight against the Turks for Greek independence. There, at swampy Missolonghi, he died of fever at the age of 36, attended to the last by his devoted valet, William Fletcher. All others when they wrote of Byron rose to the occasion with polished words and well-turned phrases, but it was the blunt, semiliterate Fletcher who had the privilege of recording what he called that "fatal day which deprived England...
Compared to the dissensions of 1854, "our differences today are hot and superficial, like sunburn, not like a fever. The burning issue of 1854 was slavery. Its counterpart of 1954 is the Communist conspiracy. If we had been as united on the first as we are on the second, I dare say there would have been no Civil War. Never in the whole history of the United States, I think, have its people been so overwhelmingly and firmly united on anything as they are in their opposition to Communism." Far from being at war with each other, "we are profoundly...
...Anderson made the best-voiced cock roach in history, and a vocal quartet called the Four Heatherstones supplied bacchanalian backgrounds. This spring Columbia Records will release an archy and mehitabel album, starring Carol Channing. But Kleinsinger and Darion expect the bulk of their royalties to result from the opera fever that has broken out across the U.S. among amateur and semi-pro groups. University workshops in particular have eagerly seized on such short works as Gian-Carlo Menotti's The Tele phone and Kurt Weill's Down in the Valley. In that company archy and mehitabel should easily...