Word: feverish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...immediate, feverish question was: how soon could the port be used to supply Eisenhower's waiting armies? The answer was that shallow-draft, small and medium-sized vessels up to perhaps 15,000 tons could probably come in as soon as the river channel was cleared of mines, which should not take more than a week; for larger ships, some dredging will be necessary. In peacetime, the silty channel had to be dredged every day in order to get larger ships (up to 30,000 tons) to Antwerp's 24 docks and 28½ miles of quay front...
What were the issues of this queer campaign, as it went into its last feverish fortnight? They were...
...this would have dismayed any other runner-up than the feverish St. Louis Browns. They kept right on winning-seven out of nine, against the Tigers' eight out of nine-and were just one game back as the American League pennant battle went into its final week...
When Dr. Sabin bestowed the certificates, 850 fellow convicts whistled and cheered. They learned that 300 had volunteered for the experiments, even when told that the diseases, while rarely fatal, were violent, painful and feverish. Some of the certificates went to men still weak and shaky from fever. Seventeen of them had to be presented in the prison's isolation ward...
After 126 days of feverish dawdling, the biggest sedition trial in U.S. history adjourned for a two-week vacation. Prosecutor O. John Rogge, who has sworn to show the jury every one of his 9,000 documents "if it takes forever," admitted sadly: "It's just impossible to estimate the length of this case. All our estimates seem now like fairy tales...