Word: feverishness
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...those of us who must ploddingly finish the race as tortoises smiting our hares, the summer is a temporary antidote. It will be nice to spend the summer in Widener, learning how to read. No more feverish scanning of indices, looking for the point of a book. When ideas are treated as ends, they can be deep, dignified and enormous; when they are forced to compete with one another in a crass market-place of ideas, they become scrappy, instrumental and unpalatable. My first aim this summer is to quiet their squabbling and nourish each runt with my mental largesse...
...largely rural Hebei province, and he's dangerously unprepared for an outbreak of the disease. A chronic funding shortage means his clinic lacks even enough surgical masks. Behind him, workers erect a flimsy Plexiglas shield across a hallway to create an isolation ward where one patient already lies feverish. Asked if his facility can cope with SARS, Dr. Li shakes his head. "All we have is our hands," he says. Even those go without basic protection against the virus that causes SARS. As the pathogen migrated from big cities to provinces like Hebei, the government sent Li boxes of latex...
...attacks? Well, it's no longer enough just to remove your shoes?now it's nearly impossible to fly without having a handheld thermometer shoved in your ear for a body-temp check. Just to be sure, many airports also require you to fill out health questionnaires on how feverish you feel...
...last weekend’s race, the Black and White overcame a slow start with a strong middle stretch and a feverish sprint that left Princeton a mere foot ahead when the boats crossed the finish line...
...faculty brainstormed for about half an hour on the problems of lotteried courses, unprepared teaching fellows and the lack of time for adequate advising, with the conversation sometimes reaching a feverish pitch...