Word: feverently
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...sure, Steiner admits, Bobby inoculated the world with chess fever singlehanded. Piling demands upon tantrums, he elevated the first prize from $3,000 to $2 million and transformed a board game into a blood sport. But Steiner, a literary critic first and a chess patzer second, is appalled by Fischer's xenophobic rancor, his avarice and below all, his literary taste (Fu Manchu, Tarzan and Playboy...
...weapons for fighting off bacteria are so powerful that they endanger him as much as they do invaders. Most people, for example, can carry streptococci without any problems. It is only when the body reacts to their presence and produces large numbers of antibodies to fight them that rheumatic fever, which can have numerous adverse effects, results...
...play's reputation I have to admit that I can't share the general enthusiasm for it as a stage vehicle. Shakespeare was still an immature playwright when he wrote it, and the quality of the result soars and plunges like a fever chart. Much of the work is too artificial, much of the punning too protracted, much of the diction rhetorically overwrought...
...smugglers who had turned the zone into a kind of tropical Klondike. Yet many prospectors continue to slip by the army patrols, hole up in caves by day and dig for emeralds through the night with the help of masked flashlights. The army itself is not immune to emerald fever. Says Willis Bronkie, one of Bogota's biggest and most successful emerald dealers: "one of the best jobs in the army is commander of that post out in the zone. I know several men who came back very rich...
...this vein, Kiely's program appears to be a preventive against the pre-professional fever that infects freshmen who find no other order or purpose in their first year course other than getting on the track for medical or law school...