Word: feverish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gold was discovered in a humid, feverish valley on the northeast coast of New Guinea, about half way between Salamaua and Buna. Men rushed into the valley, an opposite in every way to the Yukon. To get their gold out, they built an airfield at Wau, on a plateau 3,000 feet high...
...critics were excited not so much by Conductor Shaw's musicianship as by the way he held the minutest control over his singers. Gesticulating with feverish intensity, Conductor Shaw suggested a cross between Arturo Toscanini and an overwrought college cheerleader. By the time he had finished, a hand-picked audience agreed that his Collegiate Chorale was one of the finest...
Best estimates gave the Germans upwards of 10,000 men in Tunisia at first. They were chiefly flyers and technicians. The downing in three days of 20 transport planes hindered but did not break up a feverish Nazi shuttle service. Allied land troops in Morocco and Algeria greatly outnumbered those of the Axis, but only part of them were able to take the road to Tunis. And there was a possibility that one of the great air battles of the war would develop if Hitler gambled 1,000 or more of his best flyers in a desperate bid to keep...
Through the long feverish days and nights while Montgomery's heroic troops, sleepless, unrelieved, kept pressing against the enemy's deep positions, no counterattack made a single dent in their line. Montgomery likes to say: "Every man in the Army must have the light of battle in his eye." The Eighth Army had the light in its eyes...
Early one morning three years ago this week the curtains of Adolf Hitler's study in Berlin's huge Reich Chancellery stirred gently in the breeze. Inside, after seven nearly sleepless days of conferences and feverish meditation, the demoniac leader of Germany had reached his decision. A few minutes later, and hundreds of miles away, a German bomber snarled through the grey, drizzling Polish dawn and dropped a missile on the fishing village and air base of Puck. World War II had begun...