Word: feverently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Steadily, uranium fever mounted. Some 1,300 claims were filed on lands in the surrounding desert and mountains. Outsiders came to Kanab to prospect, and among them was Leroy Albert Wilson, 62, a brawler, an inventor, a Mormon excommunicated for defending polygamy and the leader of a strange band of men and women. Last week Wilson was found on his left side, lying on a sandy, sunny slope, a Geiger counter still clicking in his right hand. Six .45-caliber slugs had torn great holes in his back and head. He was the first man to be dry-gulched...
...Used to hear about the gold fever that hit the oldtimers," he says. "Terrible thing it was. Many a man was murdered in cold blood because of it. Well, we got a new one now, uranium fever, and as long as the fever lasts and people keep on claimin' everything in sight and them outside promoters keep swarmin' in here with their big-money offers, there's bad trouble ahead...
...first, Crusoe rejoices in survival itself, then in the happy rescue of guns and supplies from his ship, wrecked on a nearby reef. With the ship's dog and cat, with a home abuilding and goats to tend, the castaway seems secure in his growing self-sufficiency. But fever comes, and he is finally racked by the even greater terrors of loneliness. Director Bunuel and Actor O'Herlihy are particularly fine in picturing the despair of a man alone. The suggestion of it comes in O'Herlihy's bemused fingering of the women's clothes...
...Gastonia, N.C., the county draft board received a letter: "Dear Sir: I am suffering from romantic fever and my wife is pregnant. . . Please excuse me from the draft...
...Acute nephritis (inflammation of the kidneys) has puzzled doctors because, like rheumatic fever, it follows "strep" infections, but irregularly and in no detectable pattern. A team of Cleveland researchers headed by Dr. Charles Rammelkamp Jr. has found the answer: only two (types 4 and 12) out of 46 kinds of streptococci cause nephritis. And thorough penicillin treatment of the strep throat will ward off the kidney disease...