Word: feverishly
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...signs of a feverish preparation, involving emergency construction of wards in the halls and rapid expansion of the sent to inquire of conditions from the staff could be confirmed by a reporter Head Nurse, Miss "Killer" Kane, "Get out," she stated...
...peoples in check. The decade which ended this week saw the failure of that attempt and the unleashing of ruthless war. It saw the Far East's battle of warlords turn into a war for the supremacy of one people. It saw the U. S. turn to a feverish effort to protect itself and its neighbors. It saw, in the Battle of Britain, the life-&-death struggle of the greatest empire the world has ever known...
Avowed purpose of the feverish membership drive which the Axis put on last week was to bring "peace" to Europe. The best way to do this, according to the polite little speeches with which the signers blotted their signatures last week, is to banish the last vestige of British influence from the continent of Europe. By week's end this aim had been very nearly accomplished. But there were still four Balkan countries whose attitudes, though not necessarily influenced by Britain, were in varying degrees unsatisfactory to the Axis. These were Yugoslavia, Russia, Turkey and brave Greece...
...Harold T. Wilkins the world is a musty parchment marked "Unexplored," "Galleon Sunck Heer," "Ye Treasure iii Leagues S.W." Panorama of Treasure Hunting is his sixth book on buried ingots and briny chests, prehistoric cities along the feverish Amazon and gold dust combed from the pelts of Klondike grizzlies. Many treasures are hunted, few are found. But their seekers are slaves to the quest as gamblers to the wheel, hopheads to the needle...
...last week most U. S. citizens had recovered their normal temperature after a feverish election. Once again World War II took over the headlines. The radio returned to straightforward entertainment. Here & there a deadlocked election still awaited the final count. There were the customary post-election cries of fraud, demands for recounts, for changes in the rules. But for most people the campaign was over and done with. Some tag ends...