Word: feverishly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...storm anymore. The reluctant entry of another woman into the Paula Jones case hardly created a ripple. And when speculation that New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani might be having an affair surfaced last week in Vanity Fair, followed by the tabloids, it sparked not so much a feverish rush of readers to newsstands as a snippy debate in the New York press about standards of proof. Just as it now takes an airborne President punching out terrorists for a movie to open big, it may take, as former Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards so archly put it, finding a politician...
Dormant for years, the biotech bug is once again infesting stocks. This nasty man-made microbe, hatched in the labs of Wall Street, surfaces every few years to prey on susceptible (i.e., gullible) investors. Symptoms include feverish optimism followed by cold chills of reality...
...Olduvai Gorge, the famous Great Rift Valley site in Tanzania where the Leakeys did much of their digging, Mary worked her fossil-hunting magic again 10 years later. While Louis lay feverish in his tent, she burst in, shouting "I've got him! I've got him--our man!" The find, consisting of two bulges of brown fossilized molars protruding from a slope, turned out to be the skull of a 1.75 million-year-old human ancestor the Leakeys called Zinjanthropus ("Man from East Africa"). The discovery, notes paleoanthropologist F. Clark Howell of the University of California, Berkeley, marked...
...play reaches the climax of its feverish surreality when Santa and Rosemary Kennedy show up at the Somerville pad and take over the apartment, gratuitous water bong and all. Small-time Socialist Perry (O'Toole), held up at gunpoint, still reverts to his typical over-inflated dictatorial style: "If this is some sort of bluff, it's poorly executed...
...rally format makes for a feverish game's end and the Crimson and Eagles did not disappoint. The teams traded points until the score was tied at seven. At this point, it was clear that the first team to make a run would be the victor--that team was B.C. The Eagles won five of the next six points...