Word: feverently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said, had been living beyond its means. "For years, we have undertaken tasks beyond our strength," he said. If the crepes suzettes sizzled as lavishly as ever in Paris' chic restaurants, it had been because the economy was propped by U.S. aid, and kept in an artificial fever of inflation by governments which lacked the courage to face realities. France's military commitments were far beyond what its economy could support. Mendès insists: "We must choose"-a favorite phrase...
...Nothing like That." The first fever of enthusiasm wore off in the inhospitable climate, makeshift poverty and poor housing of Kazakhstan. "We have tea, as much sugar as we want, but no place to buy a teapot," a pioneer told an Izvestia reporter. "Kerosene lamps are also a problem . . . and then, washing basins . . . pots to cook...
Working on an antihistaminic drug which they had developed for the control of allergies such as hay fever, researchers at France's Rhône-Poulenc laboratories found that the drug made many people sleepy. For a world in need of sedatives, they took the logical step of trying to put together a related chemical that would make people even sleepier. What they found (in 1950) and first tagged 4560-RP, or chlorpromazine hydrochloride,* is now the most exciting new drug seeking recognition in the world's pharmacopoeias...
...disease in 1951, doctors there concluded after studying reports of 2,450 cases. Still unnamed, it is mild and so like German measles that only an immunologist could tell them apart. It usually attacks children, gives them a red rash, sore throat, muscle aches, and a short-lived fever of 102° F. Now that doctors know what to look for, they will probably find it outside Boston...
Boeing, which had worked at fever pitch to push its sleek silver, yellow and brown plane into the air ahead of schedule, was stunned. But company engineers and officials could remember a far more serious accident that failed to stop another Boeing fledgling: on a test flight in 1935, Boeing's prototype B-17 Flying Fortress, which became the greatest European-theater bomber of World War II, crashed and burned...