Word: feverish
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Princeton, as was expected, was unable to do anything to prevent its opposition from just running away with the race. Captain Jack Vodrey, the Tiger's most highly touted harrier, was unable, despite the feverish cries of Princeton managers and rooters to challenge the load even remotely at any time after the beginning. And it was not Vodrey who came in first for Princeton, but his teammate, Vern Dennison...
...Turkish problem grows in great part out of a commendable urge, an almost feverish yearning, to become overnight a dynamic, industrial nation. For a nation forged only 32 years ago out of the scrap iron of the broken-down Ottoman Empire and the hot will of the late great Kemal Ataturk, for a people who for centuries left the complexities of commerce to their Greek and Armenian subjects, the Turks have made historic progress. In the five years since Premier Menderes left his Opposition bench in the Assembly to lead the Democrats to a stunning upset victory over the Republicans...
...Feverish Age. The abruptness which marked the end of the Renaissance's Golden Age shocked even the men who lived through it. When the art-loving Medici Pope. Leo X, bowed his head in sorrow at Raphael's death on Good Friday, 1520, he was unknowingly mourning the death of Renaissance Man. Within seven years, Rome, the symbol of Europe's stability, lay smoking and sacked by German and Spanish troops...
...feverish, distraught age turned for a touchstone to the final great works of the aging Michelangelo...
...Britain's feverish condition, Butler promised a cure without either "physical controls" (i.e., rationing) or restricting imports. It would help, he implied, if the U.S. would get cracking on its professed desire for liberalized trade. "In recent weeks, there have been a number of signs of backpedaling," he remarked carefully, a pointed reference to President Eisenhower's recent decision to allow a 50% rise in tariffs on imported bicycles. "Now should be the time surely to abandon the metaphor and speed of the velocipede and hope for a more up-to-date propulsion toward wider trade opportunities...