Word: feverish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even this feverish expansion brought U.S. toluene capacity to only 20,000,000 gallons a year (equal to 200,000,000 lb. of TNT); and in 1939 it was still around that level. Since then it has increased by leaps & bounds-and has become a military secret...
Perhaps Japan's desire for two weeks more of Washington talk was merely to allow herself a fortnight's more preparation in Indo-China. On the other hand, New York Times Tokyo Correspondent Otto Tolischus last week reminded his readers that Japanese statesmen are not the feverish windbags that the West often pictures them, that "they are hard-headed realists who regard politics as 'the art of the possible.' . . . That is why Japan has often retreated in the face of overwhelming force, but has never lost...
...feverish, ambitious young Adolf Hitler heard a lecture by a disgruntled young construction engineer named Gottfried Feder. Feder, a native of Würzburg, boiled down Germany's economic troubles to too much raffendes Kapital ("international, Jewish, exploitive"), too little schaffendes Kapital ("national, purely German, creative"). Later Hitler wrote in Mein Kampf: "When I heard Feder . . . the idea instantly flashed through my head that I had now found my way to one of the prime essentials for the foundation of a new party...
...certainly cannot be denied that the development of the war and this latest development of our own policy have together radically changed the situation which existed when the country decided to raise in feverish haste a great mass army...
...last week, in the midst of feverish preparations for war, the Cabinet of Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye suddenly resigned. "Filled with trepidation" (according to polite formula), Prince Konoye backed out of the presence of Emperor Hirohito with orders to continue the administration of affairs until a successor could be found. While foreign correspondents in Tokyo were trying desperately to puzzle out what this meant, just as suddenly Prince Konoye emerged as his own successor, threw together a new Cabinet. "I am struck with a sense of great awe," observed Prince Konoye with high humor, "because of my poor ability...