Word: feverently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though last July's armistice silenced the guns, a mysterious oriental killer has gone on taking the lives of U.S. servicemen in Korea. Epidemic hemorrhagic fever, or Manchurian fever (TIME, Nov. 19, 1951), has killed 17 G.I.s since the fighting ended, and last week 82 were still in the Army's special hospital at Seoul in a long battle to win back their health and strength...
Shell wants to go deeper and drill other wells around Eagle Springs' perimeter before it claims a big field. But Nevada was already in the grip of an oil fever. By week's end, some 2,000,000 acres had been filed on, bringing more than $1,000,000 into Reno's land office...
CROCODILE FEVER (293 pp.)-Lawrence Earl-Knopf...
...Blacks" as a "gilded African," and sent 90 ships and 40,000 veterans of the Egyptian campaign to retake Saint-Domingue. By treachery, the French captured Toussaint and shipped him off to France to die in a moutain prison. But in the end, black troops and yellow fever smashed the French for good...
...special classes of 20 and with sym pathetic teachers, they began to pick up their three Rs rapidly. One ten-year-old who had been stricken with rheumatic fever and missed a year of school gained a year's credit in reading, picked up eight months in all his other studies; another child, whose insecure home life had made him hate school, gained 1½ years in all his work, now argues to go to school even when he is sick. By Christmas vacation, teachers could report that the 100 students had doubled their proficiency in reading, spelling, arithmetic...