Word: feverish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...treat the prospect of success as being itself a present success, that could turn into an ultimate disaster." The fact of Communist tyranny still remains, e.g., the division of Germany, the feverish drive for nuclear weapons, the fomenting of trouble in the Middle East and Asia, and the "iron heel" on the captive countries of Eastern Europe. Then, turning the tables, he added: "We believe that the spirit which in the last decade has provided so many self-governing peoples with political independence ought also to operate peacefully to stimulate independence for those subject to the ruthless colonialism of Soviet...
...therefore, no self-determination for the Cypriots-because, having banished Makarios, there is no one else with whom they can negotiate. The British now hope that new leaders will arise, meaning, of course, leaders who would be subservient to them while pretending to serve the people of Cyprus. The feverish attempts to create such leaders in my own country at the present time will serve to document the preceding statement...
Murder at the Mosque. Hussein grew up in this back-country court in a feverish atmosphere of family jealousies. Grandfather Abdullah had three wives, whose offspring schemed to-obtain the succession. His father Talal was an un happy, unstable man who beat Hussein's mother and denounced his own father Abdullah as a British puppet. The old King took to the young princeling. Hussein galloped on his blooded Arabian mare through the hills of his grandfather's summer place near Jericho, and hunted small game with the rifle that Abdullah had given him. One of his grandfather...
...radios for every portable; now the margin is closer to two to one, and is steadily narrowing. Radio's transistorized reawakening began when Regency brought out the first T-radio in late 1954. Raytheon and G.E. followed, and today the industry is in the middle of its most feverish sales battle since the early postwar years. The outcome, said one busy manufacturer, "boils down to who makes transistors faster and in bigger quantities than the others...
Kokoschka's many other portraits are nervous and feverish. They look hurried. Twenty sanguine drawings, six of which are shown, were actually done in one evening. Kokoschka, however, is not concerned with the external aspects of his subjects so much as with the strange lines of their inner personalities. The results are haunting...