Word: feverish
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Cinemactor George (Call Me Madam) Sanders, 46, frazzled partner in a zso-zso marriage to Zsa-Zsa Gabor (she once discarded him, he said, "like a squeezed lemon"), was apparently topping off his feverish domestic life with an overdose of film work. Abandoning his role in the English-made Knights of the Round Table, Sanders, heading home to Hollywood for a long rest, gasped: "I'm very tired. I'm getting...
Cheered and heartened by the return from a Sea Scout expedition of Paul W. Mandel, Crimeds will turn to feverish celebration tomorrow. No Crime will appear until next week...
...judges' barge there was more confusion. While the crews were coming down the course in the day's first heat, somebody discovered that no flag had been provided to mark the finish. By some feverish activity with a penknife and a hammer a suitable flag was hurried together from a piece of canvas and a lath. And when the tide changed, the judges' barge itself began to drift downstream, so that between races the pile of crates which constituted the judges' stand had to be moved bodily from one end of the barge to the other...
...root, Perón's plight was of his own making. Argentina is feverish with economic ills: black markets, meatless days, a steaming inflation, unemployment. All these troubles are at least partly the effects of Perón's mismanaged scheme to industrialize the country at the expense of its grain farms and cattle ranches...
...Gang. The man Cubans revere as their apostle of independence was no fire-eating general, ablaze with gold braid. He was a poet-a down-at-the-heels poet with an absurd Mark Twain mustache and a burning conviction that Cubans had a right to freedom. In a short, feverish life, he laid the foundation of the movement that swept the Spanish King's men out of Cuba...