Word: feverish
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...Hope. The cranberry farmers dismally predicted that Flemming's feverish warning had crippled the industry for years to come. They were convinced that no matter how many lots of berries might be cleared for the coming holidays, edgy housewives would still refuse to buy them...
Handkerchiefs Ready. A typical sob-coaxer is entitled Doctor Marigold. No doctor. Marigold is actually an itinerant peddler hawking his household wares from the footboard of his cart. His termagant wife cruelly beats their little daughter. During one of his spiels to the assembled yokelry, the wan and feverish tot dies in his arms. Turning on his wife, Marigold cries "Oh woman, woman, you'll never catch my little Sophy by her hair again, for she has flown away from you!" A paragraph later, Mrs. Marigold commits suicide (the river route). Handkerchiefs must be kept at the ready...
...round as a hoot owl's eye, the hunter's moon rose in its full phase last week, and political hunters by the score burst into feverish bush beating, suddenly aware that the season was all too short. The first crucial presidential primary-New Hampshire's on March 8-was barely 20 weeks away. The gavel would call the Democratic convention to order in Los Angeles in less than nine months, with the Republican convention in Chicago only two weeks behind. And soon after the hunter's moon of 1960 had waned to a sliver...
...atmosphere of high mystery, France and the F.L.N. rebels moved ever closer to the direct negotiations that could put an end to five years of bloodshed in Algeria. Day after day, diplomats and intermediaries crisscrossed North Africa to exchange hints and glances in the feverish, delicate task of preparing bargaining positions. Rebel "President" Ferhat Abbas flew to Rabat to consult Morocco's King Mohammed V, whose son, Crown Prince Moulay Hassan, had established direct contact with Charles de Gaulle. The Paris weekly Jours de France quoted Abbas as telling its correspondent: "De Gaulle is a big caid [chief...
...this would be enough to talk about at length. But TIME'S object this week is a little more. The nation has steadied down since its first feverish response to Russia's sweep into outer space. A series of impressive public school reforms and experiments has begun. As the new school year opens, the top education story is a growing campaign to galvanize every talent at every level-a kind of common consent that equality of effort ranks as high on the agenda as equality of opportunity. This week's cover story is a panoramic view...