Word: feverish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Caucasus, had compelled Britain and the U.S. to begin, hurriedly and late, the building of a preventive army in Iraq and Persia under General Sir Henry Maitland ("Jumbo") Wilson (TIME, Aug. 31). The British already had some forces there, but the sudden appointment of General Wilson and the feverish reinforcement were evidence that, in effect, a new army was being created for a new front...
...joint by joint from the fingers toward the shoulder. Its pains often migrate at random. Osteoarthritis affects the weight-bearing joints in the spine, hips, knees, and the first joints of the fingers. Its pains are always localized. Rheumatoid sufferers, unlike the osteoarthritics, are usually undernourished, anemic and slightly feverish...
...After feverish activity with an adding machine, University registration officials have announced the total enrollment figure of new students for the second session as 248, 30 of them being Radcliffe girls...
Henry Kaiser was working at the same feverish pitch which permitted him to build Boulder Dam two years ahead of schedule, by which he cut the time for constructing a Liberty ship from 105 down to 46 days. He was frankly indulging in a vast piece of bluff; he frankly wanted the Army and the Administration to call his hand; thus, in the old American way, he would get a chance to make good or shut up. Bluntly he told the Senate Committees that his plan would not cut into the bomber program. He said he was planning to prepare...
During the past 20 years Siberia has been the stage for one of the swiftest, most abrupt and feverish social and political developments the world has known. How massive that development may be, the rest of the world began to suspect when most of the industrial Ukraine went under, and Russia continued to arm herself from the Siberian arsenal...