Word: feverish
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Certain significant developments might have meant that all this smoke did mean a trace of fire. The Fascist War Office burst into feverish activity. Berlin report-ed "important conferences" between Field Marshal Erwin Rommel and General Ettore Bastico, Governor of Libya and Com-mander in Chief of Italian forces there...
...tsetse bites a man, it injects into his bloodstream protozoa known as trypanosomes, which-for the tsetse is omnivampiverous-it may have picked up from the blood of alligators, hippopotamuses, hartebeests, etc. This parasite invades the human lymph stream, the spleen, finally the brain. At first, tsetse victims become feverish, develop swollen lymph glands. Gradually they fall into a deep slumber, grow delirious as the trypanosomes attack the nervous system and brain. Many of these sleeping sick men live for years before they waste away...
...Working Committee of India's largest political body, the Indian National Congress party, met in excited conclave in northern Allahabad. At night red flares cast a feverish light on the white-clad throng, and neither palm-leaf fans nor the cold water served in clay cups could cool the argument...
...Russians were spring-feverish with confidence. Said Pravda: "We have considerably more tanks than we had before and their quality is . . . considerably better than that of the Germans. The Soviet Air Force has increased in numbers and strength and our command continues to hold the initiative firmly. The deep snow that hindered our advance is melting and conditions for an increase in the scope of our attacks are becoming more favorable." Proudly the Russians announced last week that in a little less than a month they had shot down 891 German planes, lost only 239 themselves. They claimed definite...
...rapids. This time the story is set in America. An aircraft factory in Los Angeles is sabotaged; Barry Keane, one of the workers, is accused of setting the fire. He runs away from the police and trails the real saboteur across the country, till the chase comes to a feverish end at the citadel of American freedom on Bedloe's Island in New York Harbor...