Word: feverishness
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...this feverish activity during those two weeks in October 1973, ending with the cease-fire which robbed the Israelis of victory in a war which they did not start served as a prelude to further Kissinger involvement in the area. Since the end of the war, he has, through the use of techniques know as the "step-by-step approach," or "shuttle diplomacy," achieved one military disengagement in the Golan Heights. Israeli troop withdrawals in the Sinai, and generally created the impression that the situation in the Mideast has significantly improved. However, Kissinger has yet to convince the Arabs...
...weak to abandon ship after colliding with another vessel during an Atlantic storm. It sank with a loss of 431 lives. Aboard the troop ship Leviathan, a young Assistant Secretary of the Navy named Franklin Roosevelt suddenly keeled over. From an overcrowded Chicago hospital ward a deathly feverish 16-year-old who had lied about his age to become a Red Cross ambulance driver was sent home to improve his chances for recovery. His name was Walt Disney...
...attended at what seemed to be his deathbed by nuns who prayed to Mother Seton for his recovery and occasionally touched his feverish body with one of her relics. A few weeks later, Kalin was completely cured...
...Chamber of Deputies, Paul Stehlin wrote a memorandum to Giscard suggesting that France's Mirage F1/M53 fighter was inferior to two new U.S. jets, General Dynamics' YF-16 and Northrop's YF-17. Most impartial aviation experts agree, but Stehlin made the point during a feverish competition over whether the Mirage or one of the U.S. planes will become the standard fighter for NATO'S forces...
Congreve was the alchemist of Restoration comedy, refining grossness into gaiety. He gave bawdry rare class. His rakish characters pursue their seductions, cuckoldries and feverish fornications with the aristocratic aplomb of English gentlemen on a fox hunt. Their talk is nakedly lubricious, yet it shimmers with wit. The absolute lack of any sense of sin gives even the most scandalous scenes in Congreve's plays a pagan air of preadamite innocence...