Word: feverently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...winning 2:52. Mulvey fell two yards behind the Ell's Sandy Gidoonse when he bumped his head on a bad turn in his final lap, but Hawkins made it up against Dennis O'Conner and converted it into a two-foot lead. Jorgensen, swimming with a heavy cold, fever, and lots of guts, then kept up with Kerry Donovan for the first 50 yards, but he couldn't hold on. Donovan must have covered the last lap in 50 seconds to beat Jorgensen's 52.6 by eight feet...
Jorgennen, handicapped by a bad cold and a slight fever, finished fifth in the 220-yard freestyle with a time of 2:12.5. John Glover of Dartmouth won the event in 2:08.4, three-tenths of a second short of Jorgenson's record time against Yale last Saturday...
...Lands of Dakotas, Roosevelt was also a deputy sheriff who won considerable repute catching three rustlers by himself. His African trip has been well recorded, but a remarkable trip up the Amazon at the age of 58, on which he caught an almost fatal does of jungle fever, went without much notice. Critics said he had an adolescent, romantic attitude toward dueling. This much is true: on several occasions he did come close too shooting it out, the most famous time with the Marquis de Mores, an ambitious Frenchman who had built up a rival ranch in the Dakotas...
Once the disease strikes, with headache, backache, fever and often hiccups, the doctors can do nothing by way of cure. But they can do much to make the victim more comfortable as the disease progresses, a process marked by hemorrhages in the eyes and under the skin of shoulders and belly, bleeding from kidneys and intestines. In the first place, because of the danger of bleeding from weakened blood vessels, the patient must not be jounced around in a jeep ambulance on his way to a rear area; the medics favor evacuation by helicopter. Because the disease affects the kidneys...
Well stocked with human blood samples, parasites and diseased tissues, the researchers are still hoping to find the answer to hemorrhagic fever...