Word: feverish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other hand, most Secretaries of the Interior get a feverish feeling that they know too much about Alaska (Harold Ickes was there on his honeymoon, never went back). Alaska's 586,400 square miles are occupied by only 72,524 people, 32,458 of them tuberculosis-ridden natives. It is rich, but its riches do it little good; its basic industries, salmon fishing and canning and gold mining, are owned in absentia. It has more coal than Pennsylvania, endless miles of virgin timber, many waterpower sites, but they cannot be marketed...
...Stranger's details-a tight script, murky lighting, feverish camera angles, brooding background music-are deftly synchronized to the prevailing mood of uneasiness. All of the acting is well above par. There is hardly a trace of Little Caesar in Edward G. Robinson's implacable G-man. Loretta Young is just right as the harassed, threatened bride. Oldtime Vaudevillian Billy House earns some much-needed laughs as the village druggist. And Actor Welles, even though Director Welles has used too much film on shots of the petulant Welles scowl, is a convincing menace who richly deserves hissing...
They were bewildered by the feverish surge of events which had snatched them up: "I didn't want the war in the first place ... I wish there was some way that war could be avoided and that peace would be everlasting in the world...
...Animalist Manifesto. The next three months were feverish with secret political activity. The work of indoctrination and organizing fell to the pigs, who were the cleverest of the farm animals. Two pigs were outstanding: Napoleon, a big, rather fierce-looking boar of a Stalinesque taciturnity and resoluteness, and Snowball, an ingenious pig of Trotsky-esque vivacity and eloquence. There was also a somewhat Molotovish barrow named Squealer, "with very round cheeks, twinkling eyes, nimble movements, and a shrill voice. He was a brilliant talker, and when he was arguing some difficult point he had a way of skipping from side...
With its monotonous repetition of elongated people in looping, arabesque poses, the show was far from the Renaissance art that the feverish boy had dreamed of reviving, but it had a life...