Word: feverently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Countries last week were running a low fever about their royal families. In The Netherlands, Queen Juliana took a dressing down in the press for inviting to her palace a crackpot U.S. space traveler named George Adamski (TIME, June 1). In Belgium, the newspapers fumed about ex-King Leopold, who was forced to abdicate eight years ago in favor of his eldest son Baudouin, but did not move out of the royal palace at Laeken or stop meddling in affairs of state...
...research teams, a continent apart, are hot on the trail of poles-apart methods of combatting measles. Traditionally one of the "inevitable" childhood fevers, measles is widely underrated as a health menace. For children under three and for adults, it is a threat to life itself; at any age it can cause brain inflammation, which now (since Salk vaccine) kills more victims than does polio and handicaps about as many by damaging the brain. The progress reports: ¶ Harvard's Dr. John F. Enders (Nobel prizeman because his test-tube foundations made the Salk vaccine possible) and Dr. Samuel...
...cases where brain damage results from failure to get prompt treatment, 13 researchers in seven cities reported in the Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry. If the paresis is not too far advanced, 80% of victims can return to work after massive penicillin treatment. In most cases it makes the "fever cure" unnecessary...
...fever that swept over Benny Hall Jr. brought some strange, upsetting symptoms. A $110-a-week printer in Detroit, Benny had lived contentedly for years in a $7,000 frame house, saved a nest egg of $5,000 with the help of his thrifty wife. One day in 1950 Benny Hall grew restless, excited, preoccupied. For a week or so afterward, at breakfast he riffled distractedly through the back pages of his morning newspaper. Finally he confessed to his wife:"I'm interested in the stock market...
Blind Lead the Blind. Oil fever sent men searching in the unlikeliest places on the unlikeliest leads. A miner in California, Edward Doheny, sniffed oil when he spotted an ice wagon loaded with tar jolting along a Los Angeles street before the century's turn; he rustled up another prospecting pal, Charles Canfield, and with pick and shovel they dug a 4-ft. by 6-ft. shaft 165 ft. down into the nearby tar pits, struck a field that was to flow more than 70 million bbl., lead to the discovery of another 6 billion...