Word: inflamedness
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Ridden by heavy taxes and a feudal system of landlordism, pinched by the British corn laws (which put a high tariff on imported grain, in favor of England's home-grown wheat), the Irish had been reduced to practical subsistence on the potato, and when that crop failed whole...
At the height of an attack of St. Louis' encephalitis a victim's brain is inflamed. He has a high fever, a bad headache and becomes irrational. About half of last week's sufferers were lethargic-drowsy and sleepy. The other half were hyperkinetic. They involuntarily jerked...
Sixty-five miles away in Pontiac, the United Automobile Workers local union, some 15,000 strong, inflamed by the news of what had happened to their C.I.O. cousins, declared a general holiday and announced a mass march on Monroe to close the Newton steel mill. Governor Murphy advised the auto...
For once there was no Problem Picture, those elaborate, generally sentimental illustrations for which the R. A. has been famed for generations. Nearest approach was a painting by Irish John Keating en titled Sacred and Profane Love. It showed a harassed mother wiping the nose of a snotty child while...
Lord Bellomont wrote Kidd two weasel letters to lure him ashore, then clapped him in jail, sent him to London. At his trial Kidd was not allowed counsel. As evidence that the prizes he had taken were legitimate, he had kept their French "passes" (commissions); but these vital papers had...