Word: feverish
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With the Führer so far away, German troops in the path of the Russians relied on materials closer to hand. In a feverish hurry they laid extensive minefields, felled trees, dynamited huge craters in the roads, blew up bridges and rail trackage, destroyed any of their own transport which they could not fuel or repair...
...still being finished at East Coast yards. But no more keels will be laid, East or West. Already Richmond No. 2, and most of the other yards, are building the faster Victory ship (15 knots) and a shoal of Navy craft, C-4 troop transports, LSTs, frigates. But the feverish shipbuilding in which Richmond No. 2 built a Liberty in seven days is ended...
Last week the Metropolitan was once more abustle with a feverish combination of moving day and picture hanging. Next month art lovers will again be able to see all of the Metropolitan's great art. With unusual moderation Mayor LaGuardia himself had said it: "I won't say [Hitler] is not coming over, but I'm sure he can't come with enough to aim at the pictures and hit the mark...
...from the Madding Bombs. In the feverish days after Pearl Harbor, when plane watchers on Manhattan's skyscrapers scanned the skies for the Luftwaffe (and sometimes thought they saw it), Metropolitan Museum officials feverishly sought some shelter where their millions of dollars' worth of art would be safe from Nazi bombs. Even earlier, various vacant buildings in Westchester and Putnam Counties had been inspected and found wanting. An abandoned shale mine near Kingston seemed safe but too damp. At last a Metropolitan trustee suggested Whitemarsh Hall...
...This brings with it a complete lack of incentive for action, for preparation, for desire; and the only thing which moves them all is a feverish eagerness to make quick money without great responsibility or work. The whole country is one great market in which all try to make immediate profits: the fruit dealer who gives you ten rotten peaches instead of twelve good ones; the speculator who buys needed products cheap, hoards them, makes them scarce, and sells them at high prices; the Comisariato [Board of Price Administration]-intended to lower prices-which works in league with the speculators...