Word: fever
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...street, dances The Twist, and quotes Sociologist David Riesman. On or off the field, Michigan State Junior George Saimes is something of an iconoclast: a B-plus student who shuns "snap" courses, scoffs at fraternities ("They only do what society tells them to"), and rouses himself to fever pitch with a kind of self-hypnosis. "Every time they send me in," says Fullback Saimes, 20, "I tell myself that the next play is going to be the last of my career, and I ought to do the very best...
...would-be killers drop an entire ceiling on Opal's head, try to run her down in a car, and finally soak her junk-cluttered room in kerosene, but Opal is not obliterated, or even particularly fazed. Her infectious good-heartedness cures the unwholesome three of money fever, and eventually everyone is innocently tossing greenbacks around like confetti...
...cycle out of the mud. When her bike hit a bad bump, Jill plunged over the handlebars, landed headfirst in a rabbit hole. "I was stuck so fast," she says, "that I had to undo my helmet to get my head out.'' Battered, mud-spattered, running a fever, Jill doggedly refused to quit...
...midriver. With a mock-serious air, the neutralist chief delegate drew a lurid picture of the dangers that the princes would face on a raft in the midst of the monsoon-swollen torrent, where they might be swept away along with all hopes for peace. Rising to a fever pitch, he enumerated all those who would have to be with the princes-advisers, guards, servants-and the proposed raft grew to the size of Noah's Ark. When laughter had subsided, he finally proposed that the meetings should alternate between both banks of the river...
...growth. But I have taken a close look at inflation in quite a few countries. I have seen it upset governments, take the bread out of the mouths of workers, the old, the helpless, undermine the operations of business. So I continue to class it as a dangerous fever, which gives the patient a temporary spurt but quickly saps his strength...