Word: feverishness
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...interest in a British investment firm. Company insiders expect that a commercial helicopter subsidiary may be sold off or folded, while management control of a merchant banking affiliate will be divested. Hutchison has also been selling off shares of other companies from its investment portfolio at a feverish pace, so confusing its books that accountants cannot even produce a sales estimate for 1974. Wyllie, a 43-year-old Australia-born millionaire with a reputation as a cost cutter, will not formally take over Hutchison's management until Nov. 1. But he has already seen enough to conclude that "there...
Plath's song is a dirge, difficult and painful to listen to, but painfully beautiful as well. In those last feverish months of her life, it's extraordinarily fortunate that someone managed to entrap the white hot sparks that Plath was sending off with such dangerously lavish intensity. Now those sparks have at last been released, and Sylvia Plath can "come across" to her audience as she really intended...
...legionnaires were cordial but not feverish in their applause, and so it went through most of Ford's tour. As one lowan put it: "He's like an inch and a half of rain in a dry year. Nice, appreciated, but not enough." But Ford likes this kind of campaigning-so much so that he plans to be out of Washington almost every weekend all fall. There will be fund raisers from Newport, R.I., to Seattle, Wash., a Baptist convention in St. Louis and, of course, the University of Michigan's football game against Michigan State...
Inevitably, the members began to take sides. Says one Sizemore critic on the board, Raymond Kemp, a white Roman Catholic priest: "She is angry, mad, feverish about the education of blacks. She can describe the education needs of black children to a T. But she is incapable of managing resources." Sizemore herself calls the mismanagement issue a "copout" and says that the board has interfered with her job. "The decisions are made by the board and administered by the board...
...25th Anniversary Report of the Class of '50, he described these years as an "artless." feverish rush going somewhere but, in retrospect, nowhere in an effort to realize my ambition...