Word: feverish
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This immediately sent political reporters into long columns of feverish speculation. They examined this meager phrase, with all the care of a music critic listening to Lily Pons hitting the F above high C in the mad scene from Lucia. Was Mr. Dewey now a millimeter's distance more available? Or less...
...signalman: "My God, what is it, the Bremen?" In ten to 30 seconds the Bone's guns swept the sub's deck. The destroyer leaped forward to ram, went partly over, her bow straddling the U-boat's forward deck. There she stuck. For ten feverish minutes the Borie poured metal from her 4-in. guns, her tommy guns, shotguns and pistols at the Nazis and their sub's steel sides. One signalman banged away with a harmless Very flare pistol. A gun captain hurled empty shell casings at the sub, knocked a Nazi overboard...
Inventor Nelson began to make guns in his garage. At once he found a feverish market for them in the coast's mushrooming shipyards-at $500 apiece. Reason: with the old method, a fast worker could weld 40 studs in eight hours; with the rocket gun, 1,000. (A Liberty ship has 10,000 studs to hold hangers for wireways and pipes, plastic decking, etc. in place...
History still has its famous men, Fay, Matthiessen, Karpovich, and the rest, and History 1 is still a wonderful way to learn what college means. History 1 is even more desirable now because so many other courses have been given a feverish wartime tinge...
...most part Father was satisfied with daily visits to the police station, where he set the captain right on the finer points of criminology and checked the mechanisms of the patrolmen's pistols. Ants worried him; he spent feverish hours tracking them through the house, out into the tomato patch, over the wall into the rose bed of the Women's Club. There he destroyed ants' nests and tea roses in one immense conflagration of gasoline-soaked rags. When not invited to take the chair of a particular committee, Father was likely to turn up and take...