Word: feverently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Inching upward for a fifth straight month, the Government's fever chart on living costs touched a record 114.7 in mid-July (base: 100 for average prices in years 1947-49). Reason: increased rents, some higher food prices (pork, poultry, eggs, fresh milk), higher costs of medical care and transportation. Result: 1?-an-hour wage raise for a million aircraft and automobile workers, whose pay is tied to the cost-of-living index...
...roll call. Less than one team out of each thousand finally made it to Williamsport last week. A few days later, after six teams had been eliminated, the two surviving clubs met in a final game for the world championship. Some 8,500 hoarse fans, burning with World Series fever, ignored such distractions as one catcher's bubble gum continually ballooning out through his mask. Between pitches, his battery mate ballooned back. That was natural enough. This was the annual finale of the Little League, limited to boys of eight to twelve...
...Alfred Charles Kinsey was the son of a self-made man who had started as a shopboy at Stevens Institute of Technology, and later headed its department of mechanical arts. Little Alfred spent most of his first ten years in bed, beset by rickets, heart trouble and finally typhoid fever (which nearly killed him). Then the family moved ten miles from smoggy Hoboken to the green hills of South Orange, and Alfred's health improved. He speaks with almost ferocious intensity of what South Orange meant to him: 'Twas raised in city streets. It was amazing...
...revolutionary statement: "It is not too much to say that at the present time no acute infection occurring in a previously healthy individual will result in his death if he reaches a well-equipped hospital before irreparable damage has been done to his tissues." (The only common exceptions: yellow fever and smallpox, which vaccines can prevent...
Three weeks later at Missolonghi, in the midst of a violent thunderstorm, Byron died of a fever. It was the sort of death he had invited years before in one of his most passionate and characteristic couplets...