Word: feverently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been a professor and head of the Department of Microbiology since 1946. A native of Salt Lake City and graduate of Stanford, he has studied typhus and related diseases extensively. During World War II he worked as a member of the United States Typhus Commission to control epidermic typhus fever in the Middle East and Italy. His laboratory research led to the discovery of the first chemotherapeutic agent which was effective in curing typhus and other rickettsial diseases...
...fugitive: 1) all refused to enter the woods until a reporter stomped out a trail for them, 2) one dog got lost, 3) a second followed the scent of one of the cops, 4) a third got sick riding in a truck, 5) all three got hay fever from sniffing the dusty ground...
...unwritten part of the curriculum. Hecklers bombarded him: "America carries on germ warfare . . . America's gifts are false gifts . . . Americans Go Home." As evidence of American "sex madness," students in Bombay produced fake pictures of coeds being stripped by American college boys -a farfetched reference to the spring fever "panty raids" of 1952. In Poona the students had been shown newsreel films of U.S. infantrymen threatening a parade of workers, but, as Redding quickly pointed out, it was 20 years out of date. The workers were the bonus marchers who descended on Washington...
...After a plantation overseer died of jungle yellow fever, carried by monkeys and mosquitoes, Trinidad (British West Indies) began mass inoculation of its 669,000 inhabitants...
Pick never got to Mexico. Instead, while passing through Grand Junction, Colo., he heard so much talk about the hunt for uranium that he caught the fever himself...