Word: feverently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doomsayers who see every business lull as the onset of recession came some advice from Oldtime New Dealer David E. Lilienthal: "A country can become a hypochondriac too, just as a person can. A country can fall into the habit of popping a fever thermometer into its mouth to take its economic temperature every hour on the hour, listening anxiously to its every heartbeat, and forever psychoanalyzing itself. Frankly, we've had a bit too much of this lately...
...sticky globs of rice and a few slivers of salmon and beef. In between, they sampled everything from roots and berries to mules and monkeys. Wrote one G.I.: "That monkey meat is all right until the animal's hands turn up on a plate." Beset by dysentery, dengue fever and malaria, badgered by enemy planes and artillery, blocked off from all aid, the men nursed their back-to-the-wall morale in bitter little ditties...
...newspaper. It ranges sweepingly over the book's "Writers, Publishers, Republishers, and those concerned. All Publications, Readers, Sympathizers, Harmonizers, Believers, Critics, Followers, Preachers and Priests, as well as Nations and others that coincide with those lies published in that book . . . They are cursed with consumption, with fever, with inflammation, with the sword . . . They shall be smitten with botch of Egypt, with fire, with burning, with emerods, with madness and blindness and heart trouble...
Cameras in the Sky. Meanwhile, the helicopters of 1953 are finding new and increasingly fantastic employment with every passing day. They string power lines across peaks of the high Rockies, and thresh slowly over northern Canada doing mineral surveys from the air. They have landed yellow-fever vaccine in Costa Rican jungle clearings, and have plucked sick, wounded or stranded men from mountain ledges, deep canyons, flood areas and sinking ships all over the world...
...actual value of the herd by Government computation) in duty penalties. Last week federal officials were preparing to present their case against Broussard to a grand jury. Mexico demanded that the Charolais be returned, but the U.S., ever fearful of foot-and-mouth contagion and southern tick fever, wondered whether it shouldn't slaughter the cattle and wind up the case once...