Word: feverently
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...American personnel. First, there was the short-lived seizure of our embassy in February 1979. Then 20 Air Force employees were taken by Iranians at one of our intelligence monitoring sites and released after several frightening days. The street mobs sometimes whipped up anti-American feelings to a fever pitch. As quietly as possible, we continued to urge the several thousand Americans remaining in Iran to leave. Before and immediately after the Shah's departure from Iran, we had left open our invitation for him to come to the U.S., but he had decided to stay in Morocco...
...blinked, swallowed, croak-ily joked about hay fever. The tears would not stop leaking through...
...team was happy because it rebounded from a two-game deficit to beat the Lions for a season-opening victory. I was happy because I discovered that volleyball--like my roommate said--"burns." It really is hot. That one afternoon at Wheaton, I had caught volleyball fever...
...beginning of Sadat's visit to Washington, I thought he was a bit shy or ill at ease because he was sweating profusely. But he told me he had been unwell, with chills in Paris and a high fever since he had arrived in our country. Sadat's complexion was much darker than I had expected, and I noticed immediately a callused spot at the center of his forehead, apparently caused by a lifetime of touching his head to the ground in prayer. He didn't smoke very much, but he always wanted his pipe near by, and was irritated...
Despite my efforts to the contrary, expectations had built up to a fever pitch. My only hope was that in the quiet and peaceful atmosphere of our temporary home, both Begin and Sadat would come to know and understand each other better, and that they would trust me to be honest and fair in my role as mediator and active negotiator. It was soon to be obvious that Sadat seemed to trust me too much, and Begin not enough...