Word: feverishly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...event reached a feverish pitch when the Big Masher broke the local record. As the machine began to pull I unconsciously rose to my feet. When it lurched forward pulling the weight, I lost it altogether...
More than 2,200 high school students are in Cambridge this weekend for the 40th annual Harvard Model United Nations simulation--a four-day event that represents the culmination of a semester of class research or extracurricular work for delegates and nine months of feverish preparation for 130 Harvard organizers...
Fervent, foreboding music and feverish operatic voices accompany the progress of a black gondola, adorned with the head of dragon. It weaves though a dark network of water-bound caves, and soon we behold a dungeon--thousands of hands reaching out from behind iron gridding--and a hulk-sized executioner with a burnt head a la Freddy Kruger...
...vacation came to an abrupt end when Kelly became feverish and began hallucinating. Despite intensive care at three different hospitals and the best efforts of doctors to figure out what was wrong, she kept getting worse. She had muscle spasms, salivated uncontrollably and suffered bouts of terror. She recoiled from her mother and father and even her own hair. During one lucid moment the little girl told her parents, "I'm sorry, I know I shouldn't be afraid of you, but I can't help it." On July 11, three days before her 12th birthday, she died with doctors...
Even the automakers themselves are surprised -- and unprepared. As GM shutters eight plants, a feverish demand for light trucks threatens to outstrip the company's capacity to build them. Robert Rewey, vice president for Ford's sales operations, just raised his estimate of industry sales for the third time this year. "We're still trying to assess what's going on here," Rewey says. "While there is still a lot of uncertainty surrounding the economy, we don't think this is a fluke. We're happy to be back and selling autos...