Word: fevered
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...screenplay of C.S. Forrester's novel almost rivals Katherine Hepburn's I overheard an unscrupulous wretch in the dining hall trying to start a rumor that the novel was actually by Stephen Foster, and was originally called Mississippi Queen, and started out with a man dying of Bayou fever, and that Bogart's ship was the Monitor...
...narrator of Falling Bodies is Emma Sohier, once a brilliant student of literature at Radcliffe, now alas, sunk in apartment-wifery. Emma has sat a deathwatch as her mother died horribly, then she herself spent a month in the hospital with a mysterious fever. While there, she saw the body of a suicide plunge by her window. She cannot make herself walk the city for fear that some body will land on her head...
According to the village patriarch, Man Hing-lap, the bulldozers have aroused the dragon from his slumbers and he is now breathing vengeance on the local population. The first victim was Man's grandson, who came down with a mysterious fever. A few days later, seven other of his grandchildren were similarly stricken. Aghast, Man called for his local diviner, who quickly appraised the situation: the dragon's nose had been cut off by a bulldozer; in revenge, the dragon had put a curse on the whole Man clan, which since the 1200s has made...
...particular significance was attached to Herrick's report, which he admitted "fell like a dud." But it was eventually to have great impact on Paul White (M.D., Harvard, 1911), who was then switching from pediatrics to heart disease because a sister had died from the aftereffects of rheumatic fever. After White's internship, Harvard financed a trip to London, where he bought a newfangled invention, the electrocardiograph. White took the instrument back to Massachusetts General Hospital, where he set it up in a closet in the basement of a Bulfinch building. There he began taking and studying...
...from any involvement in revolutionary France's fight with Britain in the face of great popular support for the nation's first ally. Thomas Jefferson secretly schemed to enlarge the Navy's operations in the Barbary wars. President James Folk's reckless acquiescence to annexation fever during the Mexican War created dissent in Congress and among non-frontier voters that, in Javits' view, stood "unequaled until the war in Viet...