Word: feverish
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...flags, and pushing each other -fully clothed-into pools. The kissing never stopped. The noise level was astronomical. And so it should have been: the NASA communities of Houston, Huntsville and Cocoa Beach had sent three men to the moon and back. The revelry at splashdown time was fittingly feverish...
What is left afterward is the impression of a few feverish laps around the laboratory, an oppressive feeling that the spreading bacteria may be less of a threat than the organized technology necessary to fight it. The book remains essentially a great short story, distended to novel length, that closes on a dying fall...
...wheels; it also has fixed louvres as bizarre sunshades on the rear window. The still more powerful "Boss 429" has a 375-h.p. engine that will whip the car from zero to 60 m.p.h. in less than six seconds. Even the Ford Fairlane, usually a sedate family car, becomes feverish when equipped with a new option: a 335-h.p. engine...
...House, for example?a target of ridicule in the late '50s and early '60s?is now seen as his valuable addition to the presidency. No President since World war II had been more resistant to the demands of the military than General Eisenhower. "We must guard," he said, "against feverish building of vast armaments to meet glibly predicted moments of so-called 'maximum peril...
...Jules Feiffer cartoon is an act of aggression camouflaged by humor. Feiffer is a satirical sniper who drills lethal little holes in the feverish body politic. In security, hostility, urban hysteria are both his targets and his weapons, and all his cartoons are Little Murders, as he has titled his first full-length play...