Word: feverently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...began with what the Vatican paper, L'Osservatore Romano, called "a slight indisposition." Pius XII, close to his 78th birthday (March 2), had been afflicted with an attack of hiccups, at first sporadic, then almost incessant and accompanied by a slight fever. But he carried on through his normal day: rising at about 6, saying Mass, and working until near 2 in the morning...
...have remained constant. "I remember seeing a picture in the bank showing a line of students sporting those broad-brimmed straw 'skimmers'." Then, of course, "there was the era of the battered hat," he recalls, "before the fellows stopped wearing hats at all." Riots, or lesser displays of spring fever have also been common. "I remember one, just after they'd finished building Wigglesworth, when somebody there dropped a bag of water on a fried outside, and minutes later, there was a big crowd on Massachusetts Avenue. I was across the street, but the tear gas bombs still...
...needle jaundice," because the latter is carried only by blood.* That, and the fact that the serum type takes two or more months to develop (three times as long as the infectious variety), are the most obvious differences. Both kinds of hepatitis make the patient equally miserable, causing headache, fever, nausea and loss of appetite. In most cases, jaundice appears. Though hepatitis is rarely fatal, it may cause severe liver damage...
...therefore, contracted from transfusions or from improperly sterilized needles used in taking blood samples. One famed exceptional outbreak: 33,000 cases in the Army in 1942 from a yellow-fever vaccine containing human serum...
...Berlin air raid. In the lower left, a demented soldier hobbles on a crutch, carrying his amputated left leg in the crook of his arm. That figure is a remembrance of the time Grosz spent in a mental military hospital during World War I (nervous breakdown following brain fever); one of his fellow patients was a German soldier who had lost his leg, and carried about a piece of wood in his arm. Over the whole broods the specter of "Mother Europe," gorged with the blood of her dead...