Word: feverish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scramble to pay the most eloquent tribute to ailing Evita Perón became a feverish rush last week. The Peronista majority in Congress voted to build a monument to her. The governor of Buenos Aires Province ordered her autobiography, The Reason for My Life, used as a textbook in all the province's public schools. Health Minister Ramón Carillo directed that in 508 hospitals and clinics under his department Masses be said for her "quick and complete recovery...
...Socialist Party" leader, said the voice. He was deathly sick, lying on a bed of pain, and he wanted to be sure the papers reported it. The next afternoon the phones rang again. At that very moment Cairo lay enshrouded in smoke and echoing to sirens as a feverish anti-foreign mob, directed by jeep-borne leaders on a precise timetable, fired $300 million worth of foreign property and took some 60 lives (TIME, Feb. 11). It was Ahmed again. He was still in bed, terribly sick, and wasn't it awful what was happening...
...Feverish note-taking is lacking, as is the idea of the instructor preaching a gospel. Professors employ largely the "key sentence" technique of drawing generalizations from specific reading material. They orient their classes to "social implications" by exemplifying cases of tension and conflict and then demonstrating the effects of that conflict on morality. This subtle system, overwhelming when it works, sometimes leads to a carelessness is dong assignments and gaining purely empirical knowledge...
...city $1,389.50 to correct the misspelling (langauge for language) on the school system's new report cards. Cried the L. A. Examiner: "What's Rong With Skool Bored Spelling? It's Costing Munny!" ¶At the University of Nebraska one night last week, 400 spring-feverish students poured out of the fraternity houses and the men's dormitories to stage a mass invasion of Sorority Row. They knocked down one house mother, swarmed up ladders and pillars, smashed windows, made off with 250 souvenir panties, girdles and brassieres. Next night, armed with pots of paint...
...five consecutive nights over Manhattan's station WOR-TV. TV producers like the idea because it saves on sets, actors' salaries and programming. Actors like it because it gives them a chance to be seen night after night, just as in the theater, and eases the feverish pressures of TV acting...