Word: feverish
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...beginning, at least, was decidedly unclassy. When the horse finally arrived in Louisville, he was haggard, bruised, feverish and 51 lbs. underweight -just five days before the Derby. Arias, who believed that the speed trials favored by American trainers rob a horse of his stamina, worked Cañonero at a leisurely trot. A 100-to-l shot on some tip sheets, Cañonero moved from deep in the pack to win by 3¾ lengths. "What do they have to say now!" cried the jubilant Arias...
...abbreviated Teletype messages dribble endlessly into offices in Saigon, printing out the cold statistics of blood and violence. At times the tempo is feverish, at times sluggish...
...Tuppeny, the cross country coaches for Harvard and Penn, are not bosom buddies. To say they are enemies is to exaggerate. Nor are they indifferent to each other, though they seem to pretend that they are. I guess it is most accurate to say that they are feverish rivals...
...tremendous demand for Black Studies created a feverish, and sometimes vicious, competition for black faculty members. Because Harvard's program had begun looking for instructors late in the spring of 1969 there was some concern that it might not get top-quality personnel...
...activities of the caucus in the Fainsod debate never approached the feverish pitch of the previous Spring. The liberals met only a few times last year to organize their slate of candidates. The conservatives met once, then circulated a list of their candidates to certain Faculty members and lobbied for their acceptance...