Word: feverish
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...April 2, Adela, who had diabetes, said she felt tired, cold, feverish. She suffered from diarrhea."We thought it was a normal cold," says her husband Jose Luis (who does not want his last name used). "We do not have Social Security or Seguro Popular [public insurance], so we went to a private doctor [on April 5]. She treated [Adela], and we paid her and bought the medicines." The physician said Adela had a throat infection and prescribed amoxicillin and Amboxal. But Adela did not get better. On April 7, she went back to the doctor by herself...
...students are starting to get nervous. The health center at the University of Texas at Austin has been experiencing such a high volume of calls that an automated message now directs students to the center's website. If you are calling for general swine flu information but aren't feverish or coughing, the recorded message directs, "Please hang...
Nevertheless, FlyBy knows that some of you are feeling feverish and nauseous just reading this post, and that your parents have been calling for hourly updates about whether any Harvard students have been diagnosed with the swine flu. Rest easy, UHS has not received any complaints of swine flu-like symptoms from any members of the Harvard community. They have even posted a link to FAQs about the swine flu on their homepage...
...overtaken the Brits economically. Between the beginning of World War I and the end of World War II, as America turned into the unequivocal global leader, Britain became an admirable also-ran, radically diminished as a global player. If the 21st century rhymed, China would be the new us - feverish with individual and national drive, manufacturer to the world, growing like crazy, bigger and much more populous than the reigning superpower. And our next half-century would, according to the analogy, unfold like Britain's in the first half of the 20th century, requiring a downsizing of our national ambitions...
...namesake city, Lithuania’s capital, which is first introduced through the eyes of the most fractured player at the table, Vytautas Vargalas. Vargalas, a labor camp survivor turned librarian, serves as a paradigm for post-Soviet interstice. He sees life through a lens of feverish paranoia, which makes his observations abundantly surreal and vividly eroticized, simultaneously reminiscent of Kesey and Orwell. Through his eyes, Vilnius is “a dead city, and above it hangs a fog of submissive, disgusting fear.” It has become a landscape “where Russia?...