Word: fever
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...swine influenza (TIME, April 5), was tacit recognition of the emerging controversy surrounding the proposal. Despite final congressional approval and the signing of the measure into law last week, some legislators and doctors are wondering out loud whether the flu program is merely another symptom of election-year fever...
...worrying about how I would remember the fever of Watergate. I was afraid I would forget, and it is something we should never forget. Perhaps All the President's Men [March 29] should be rerun at regular intervals as a constant reminder to keep our guard up against its ever happening again...
...bother her. Her mother died when Virginia was 13. The woman who came to take Mrs. Stephen's place in the household, Virginia's half-sister Stella, died two years later. When she was 22, her father passed away; two years after that, her brother Thoby died of typhoid fever. Virginia only spoke of the last death, and even her reference to that was fortuitous. Violet was very ill with the same disease and in order to conceal Thoby's death from her, Virginia made up cheerful prognostications and a few stories about him. This went on for a month...
...child she was racked by scarlet fever, which spurred her imagination. She dreamed of whirlpools and premonitions of death. When she went to Paris in 1970, she thought she saw Jimi Hendrix and Brian Jones dying from regurgitation. She tried to warn them, but she wasn't famous enough to get through...
...mirrors, glittered cushions--has been splashed over the walls and floors. In the middle, in the big empty space, people are dancing. From up above them seem one pulsating mass--a motley, throbbing protoplasm that expands and contracts in rhythm to the newest disco song. As the music reaches fever pitch, it threatens to engulf the upper mezzanines, slide out to the hallway, push itself out the door and burst smokily all over Lansdowne Street...