Word: feverently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thing that sentimental Austrians like even better than coffee topped with whipped cream, it is an emperor. Last week, for the first time in years, a real emperor dropped in on Vienna, and the city was plunged into a swivet of what local newspapers called Kaiser-fieber (emperor fever). The real emperor: His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie, King of Kings, Conquering Lion of Judah...
...could only receive brief voice messages in the old Columbine, can now receive Teletype messages of any length during flight, including top-secret material. Another important improvement is a more efficient cabin pressurization system, to relieve the strain on Mamie's heart, slightly damaged by rheumatic fever in childhood...
...send him a message at once so cynical and so brutal. Where are the common charities, after all, Mr. President? How bad must be the evil acids eating at the soul if finally they stir in such a way our passions and our tempers . . . Mr. President, there is fever and there is pain. The least we could do in an effort to be charitable would be to recess the Senate, in consonance with the suggestions made by eminent medical authority. When Senator McCarthy is ready, he will be back here to defend himself, with his chin...
...Fever and Imagination...
...then, as a student, that Diderot caught that insidious 18th century disease: a chronic high fever to know everything. The Embattled Philosopher tells the story of how Denis Diderot, philosopher, encyclopedist, playwright, novelist, art critic, conversationalist and lover, came to personify the French 18th century, and how he created the intellectual Trojan horse that led to the downfall of the Bourbon monarchy. It is the first biography of Diderot to appear in English in three-quarters of a century, and it is a good one. Author Lester G. Crocker, a Goucher College professor and former movie writer, knows...