Word: feverish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...greased-up, bulb-nosed, and hidden by eyebrows and mustache heavy enough to make a hair shirt. The dancers (Ricardo Montalban, Sono Osato, Ann Miller, Cyd Charisse) are easy to watch. The Technicolor makes the white horses and blue skies look wonderful, and most of the actors feverish...
...this week, when the day seemed surely at hand, the G.O.P. had embraced most of Franklin Roosevelt's innovations. And the New Dealers had either grown bald and tired or had disappeared completely, leaving their party to less feverish -and less consecrated...
...delegates were seized by feverish compromise hopes. At one point during a Security Council session, spectators anxiously watching Andrei Vishinsky were startled when he rushed from the Palais de Chaillot stage. It was, however, no political demonstration. In his haste Vishinsky blundered into the ladies' room...
...Pleasures and Regrets is read in anticipation of a masterpiece to come, it has considerable interest. In its pale pieces can be found many of Proust's later themes: his view of human love as a sweet, evanescent sickness that briefly drives its victim to feverish pitches of feeling and then leaves him sated and bored; his fascination with the workings of human memory, which he saw as a treacherous filter distorting the qualities and meanings of past experience; and his complex attitude to high society, which delighted his snobbishness and shocked his moral feelings...
...Bernard Lamotte is an amiable, agitated man who speaks at feverish speed, waving his hands and shrugging his shoulders to fill the holes in his broken English. Meticulous in his sketching, Lamotte spent five days before Chartres Cathedral last summer waiting for a cloud or a sunbeam to produce the effect he wanted, the light on the cathedral that he remembered from boyhood...