Word: feverish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bowel obstruction, after five days of illness. The parents, who had summoned a "spiritual healing" practitioner, maintained that their son had shown only intermittent flulike symptoms and seemed to be recovering just before taking a fatal turn. But medical experts testified that the child would probably have been feverish, vomiting and in obvious pain before his death. Had he been taken to a doctor, they asserted, the boy would still be alive. In one poignant moment at the trial, David Twitchell sadly voiced his misgivings: "If medicine could have saved him, I wish I had turned...
...sawed in half so he can carry it. It is still almost as long as he is. He has a florid tattoo on his right arm -- a premature badge of manhood that also serves as an animist charm to ward off evil. Sometimes Kyaw Lin is shaky and feverish because, like most of his comrades, he suffers from bouts of malaria. Nobody is there to wipe his brow or take his temperature; he just lies in his bunker until the fever subsides and he can return to fighting the Burmese...
...aims to dominate the Arab world, the Iraqi leader is reclusive and aloof. He has not traveled outside the Arab world since 1985, and rarely grants interviews. Despite a feverish cult of personality, little is known about his habits or tastes beyond the image he cultivates as a patron of music and poetry. Those outside his tightly controlled inner circle have little sense of the humorless man who hides behind bombastic statements and paternalistic visits to the countryside...
...Saturday, Yeltsin was narrowly ahead of Polozkov in a key round of balloting, but failed to clinch the presidency. More feverish politicking is expected this week. One thing is certain: Gorbachev will continue trying to position himself as the centrist alternative to what he called in the interview "crazies" like Yeltsin on the left and the hard-liners on the right...
...state. Wherever they went as they began stumping in earnest last week, Van de Kamp, Feinstein and Wilson made California reverberate to a can-you-top-this of environmental concern. Debate about conservation vs. development is not exactly new in a state that has long sought to reconcile its feverish growth with the desire for a healthy, outdoor way of life. In a classic, cyclical conflict between the "smokestack" of job-creating development and the "geranium" of quality of life, public opinion today is clearly on the side of the geranium. "Environment, growth and crime are the big issues...