Word: feverently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME'S March review of Crocodile Fever mentions Bryan Dempster as having disappeared and rumored to be "somewhere on [Africa's] Lake Nyasa." I think possibly I am the white hunter to whom you refer, as I have been hunting crocodiles on Lake Nyasa for the past five years. If Dempster had turned up on the lake, I would soon have heard, as news travels fast in the bush...
...refuge at Malta, where he painted a portrait of the Grand Master and was rewarded with a knighthood. But then he assaulted a fellow knight and was imprisoned. He escaped, made his way to Tuscany, was arrested for a crime he had not committed. Soon afterward, he died of fever. He was then...
Canada's economy has been blooming with health for so long that the slightest flutter tends to inspire chills and fever among the nation's businessmen and politicians. Last week the Bank of Montreal reported that, Canada, like the U.S., was experiencing "mild recessionary tendencies." A slack winter season in coal, steel, textiles and farm implements had pushed unemployment to a postwar high of 312,000 in late February. Foreign-trade experts were mildly concerned as the international trade deficit ($467 million last year) extended into...
...Western states last week, there was a feverish new boom in penny uranium stocks. People with a few spare dollars were taking flyers in such stocks as Uranium, Inc., Sun Uranium, Atlas Uranium. Penny Stock, and Uranium Corp. of America. The fever started in Salt Lake City, spread to Denver, and to the San Francisco Mining Exchange. There, said President George Flach, the uranium boom has brought "the brightest prospects I've seen around here in ten or 15 years...
...pace and of subject would help him recover from damage done by the Army's chronicle of the case of Private David Schine. But the bell came too late to avert physical exhaustion: two days later Joe McCarthy was stricken with a virus laryngitis and a lively fever...