Word: fever
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...prosperous Rio de Janeiro well-to-do wives had caught the gin rummy fever. They called it "Pif-Paf" (pronounced peef-paff). They began their games at teatime, played for high stakes. At dawn they went to bed white with exhaustion, slept with the aid of sedatives. Next teatime they began all over again. The local press reported that they were running into debt, pawning their jewels, neglecting their husbands and children...
...Monday sales of tickets for the big dance indicate that the fever is on and you'd better get your tickets pronto. The dance promises to be a terrific success what with the weather, the B.C. game et al, and it will aid Treasurer Sam Nikkel a lot if we all get our tickets in the early part of the week...
...Streptothricin protects mice against 10,000 times the ordinary lethal dose of Salmonella schottmülleri (paratyphoid fever organism), Escherichia coli (colon bacillus) and Bacterium shigae (cause of Shiga dysentery). The drug's usefulness against typhoid bacteria has not yet been tested in mice, but it is effective against test-tube typhoid...
...Gold fever ran its highest temperatures in Ontario's remote Midlothian township. There Prospector Felix Roche found a seam of gold-rich green rock at least 425 feet wide. The site is reached by portaging through a chain of lakes. Just seven days later, the 36 square miles of Midlothian township were staked solid...
When Dr. Sabin bestowed the certificates, 850 fellow convicts whistled and cheered. They learned that 300 had volunteered for the experiments, even when told that the diseases, while rarely fatal, were violent, painful and feverish. Some of the certificates went to men still weak and shaky from fever. Seventeen of them had to be presented in the prison's isolation ward...