Word: feverishness
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...Here also, crops were poor. The Soviet Union, which in 1960 exported 100 million bushels of grain to Eastern Europe, is now itself short of food. The spring planting lagged 2,000,000 acres behind last year, and meat production was down 13% in spite of Khrushchev's feverish speeches and Draconic firings early in the spring. In fact, the U.S.'s 21 million farm population in 1960 grows as much food as some 500 million Chinese, and 60% more than no million Russians...
Married. Lawrence Durrell, 49, prolific Irish author of The Alexandria Quartet, a four-volume "investigation of modern love" turned out in 9½ months of feverish writing; and Claude Ford, 35, shapely, blonde French-Egyptian writer, linguist and trained electrician, his mistress during six years of poverty and sudden success; he for the third time, she for the second; in London. Durrell's second wife, like his demonic heroine, Justine, was a mysterious Alexandria Jewess, known only as Eve, who now lives in London. Said Claude Ford of last week's marriage: ''Purely a formality...
When Branwell got a box of toy soldiers as a present, he and his sisters gave them individual names and then went on to weave fantasies and adventures around them that would shortly turn the rectory into a feverish, secretive writers' workshop. They dubbed themselves the Four Genii: Genius Tallii (Charlotte), Genius Emmii (Emily), Genius Annii (Anne) and Chief Genius Brannii (Branwell). The writing began when Branwell was twelve, and the first two toy-soldier games, "The Young Men's Play" and "The Islanders" (in which each child peopled an island with heroes of his own choice) fused...
...rallied back from an unexpected one-goal deficit. The Big Red pressed for a score early in the game and went ahead at 12 minutes of the opener. The Crimson tied it up 20 minutes later, went ahead on Morse's tally, and held on as Cornell staged a feverish attempt to send the contest into sudden-death overtime...
...often said, and this year the Rotarians of Rockville, Conn. (pop. 11,000) took him at his word. Ardently backed by School Superintendent Raymond E. Ramsdell, himself a Rotarian, they financed a "pilot project" at Rockville's Northeast School that may be the nation's most feverish excursion into "safety education": driver training for first and second graders using itsy-bitsy pedal cars. Why make motorists out of moppets of six and seven? "We chose them because they fit the only cars we could buy reasonably," a leader of the Rotary program disarmingly explains. Last fall the school...