Word: feverish
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...this fall Procrastination and I broke up. In my new dormitory room. I found another fantasy fulfilling girlfriend. Organization cut a sleek figure in a three-piece suit and neatly applied makeup. Before we had even spoken to each other, she had me moving with feverish speed. Lists, lists, lists-I had to make lists: lists of room-filling objects to buy, of esoteric classes to see; lists of letters to write and applications to prepare. I gave her every list I had, but Organization still wasn't satisfied...
Alejandra seems fated to go mad and to kill Fernando, the father whom she has tried to repudiate. With its hints of incest and its portrait of a doomed family hagridden by history, Alejandra's tale is South American gothic at its most feverish...
With all that flare in the air, and all the strong support on the ground, it is little wonder that the stars of the show seemed, especially during all the weeks of feverish preparation, to have been virtually swept off the stage. Charles still pressed on with his ceremonial schedule, even taking a side trip to Dartmoor Prison, whose inmates presented him with a ball-and-chain paperweight. Lady Diana showed up in the stands at Wimbledon, looking fetching and diverting spectator attention from the antics of John McEnroe on Centre Court. The two also appeared together in public...
Within minutes an enormous rescue crew had assembled: 250 policemen, 250 firemen and hundreds of paramedics. With blowtorches, chain saws and jackhammers they struggled to peel away the twisted beams and cement boulders. They worked 13 feverish hours to free the injured and retrieve the dead. Said Doug Klote, an ambulance company official: "Death and mutilation are nothing new to me. But this is the worst...
...Bill Woods, a Texan who arrived in Guatemala and quickly decided to open up unused northern jungle land for Indians, who were running out of farming space in the highlands. Despite feverish opposition and regular threats on his life from landowners in the area, by the 1970s Woods had managed to relocate 1,000 families. Then, three years ago, the priest's small plane exploded in midair. Missionaries are convinced Woods was murdered...