Word: feverishly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...problem when Lee Strom, 60, a cook in a Walnut Creek, Calif., restaurant, was admitted to the University of California Medical Center with what Dr. Curt Ries diagnosed as agranulocytosis. The condition, characterized by the body's inability to produce white blood cells, had left Strom weak and feverish and with so severe an infection in his rectal area that doctors were forced to perform a colostomy, bypassing his lower bowel...
...crazed young writer (wearing, as writers will, "a worn gray cord jacket" and "tight blue knit slacks") and three accomplices, just "ordinary, average men" says Wallace, who naturally turn into "savages bent on satisfying their immediate appetites." Howard Yost, a beefy failed insurance salesman, and Leo Brunner, a mousy, feverish little accountant, are ordinary indeed, but Kyle Shiveley, a psychopathic My Lai veteran with "thin lips" and "cold slate-colored eyes," not to mention his "horrendous apparatus," is hardly the guy next door...
...features Robert Walker with a look in his eye and a voice tone that will wind its way into the core of your memory. Hitchock's film, written by Raymond Chandler ("The Big Sleep," "Farewell, My Lovely," "The Long Goodbye"), is one of his best, with a sense of feverish fascinating demented activity instead of mere raw suspense. In a minor apocalypse a merry-go-round goes berserk near the end of the movie...
Nixon sought out the safe waters of the Young Republicans meeting in the Shoreham Hotel. When they chanted in feverish ecstasy "Three more years!" the President held up three fingers and waved to them reassuringly. Some of them came by the White House later for a reception...
...months France's President Georges Pompidou, 62, has been in visibly failing health. His face has become increasingly puffy, his movements have grown unsteady, and his energy has obviously flagged. When the normally reticent Eryse"e Palace last week announced that the President was bedridden and feverish with a bout of influenza, many observers read much more into the official announcement. "He's sick, very sick," concluded one diplomat. "It's no longer an unmentionable subject...