Word: fevered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...comes in winter and is harder to dodge than a speeding snowball. This year the debilitating and sometimes deadly scourge of influenza is unusually virulent. So many people have taken to their bed with chills, aching muscles and fever that doctors are overwhelmed, offices are decimated, and some schools have temporarily shut their doors. Nearly 8,100 Americans, most of them elderly, are known to have died of flu and flu-related illnesses, and the figure is rising daily. The Centers for Disease Control has officially declared it an epidemic, the worst outbreak...
...classic symptoms of flu, which begin to appear about 48 hours after exposure to the virus, include a sudden fever, chills, sore throat, headache, muscle pains, lethargy and a persistent dry cough. Although most of the symptoms subside after two to three days, victims remain contagious for an additional three or four days...
...downward but also from the center outward to the republics -- without unhinging his entire reform program or, worse still, losing territory. Should Gorbachev accede to Lithuania's demand for secession, he knows, he will be pressed for comparable concessions from Estonia and Latvia. And once the secession fever infects the Baltics, the Kremlin fears, what is to stop it from spreading to the other republics? Last week Gorbachev's Politburo ally, Alexander Yakovlev, dubbed this unnerving prospect "the domino effect...
When did the Bush administration stop understanding English? It is insulting, even to Quayle, to equate his "evil empire" rhetoric with Bush's glasnost fever. It is equally insulting to claim that the American public can't tell the difference...