Word: feverish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vehicle of student opinion is of self-evident importance to the University management: Few of us who worked on the CRIMSON will forget the satisfaction it brought us to see some of our needing result in significant changes in policy. The friendships formed at the CRIMSON through feverish efforts to meet deadlines and struggles to keep the paper solvent are likely to be lasting. It I were to go through college again, I should make the CRIMSON more of a major interest than in fact...
...Players. It was done with some of the feverish zeal of the war, and in spite of some of the same shortages of materials. Steel was flown by plane to factories to keep production lines rolling; "expediters" hunted down parts and materials tucked away in obscure corners, or prowled in grey markets for steel and lumber; newspapers headlined the Scoreboard of production like bulletins from the front...
...rehearsal, he is temperamental: his moods vary from the fire-&-ice meticulosity of Toscanini to the feverish, flop-haired semaphoring and exuberance of a college cheerleader. Says he: "I'm ashamed of myself after every rehearsal. I think you can only inspire a group when you have their respect, and they only respect dignity-but their slowness sometimes disgusts me and I forget myself...
...will mean given real momentum. The idealistic drive of this movement finds rare equal at the present moment. In utter seriousness the show's participants call themselves a "task force." They feel themselves engaged in a crusade to save civilization. MRA's overriding interest rests not in its feverish adherents so much as in the social elements to which the appeal goes forth. "The Good Road" plays before "invitation" audiences of people with either means or influence. Furthermore, the public figures who lend it the strength of their names include, in addition to chairman Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, both...
...Edward Lear should never have attempted to represent her. Yet . . . I know there is a vein of poetry in me that ought to have come out." If anywhere it did come out, fresh & free, it was in the pale and delicate watercolors he jotted down in a few feverish moments...