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  • Extremists—whether they're carrying the red hammer-and-sickle flag, the Nazi swastika flag, or the fever-ridden, distorted and anti-Muslim message of a blond ethnic Norwegian and self-proclaimed warrior such as Breivik—are dangerous and must be confronted.

    Norwegian Politics After Breivik Siv Jensen 2011

  • Indeed their hospitality was so fine, that night, that I began to feel regretful at the thought that I'd probably be exchanged in the next day or two, and would find myself back in that lousy, fever-ridden camp under Sevastopol - it's a curious thing, but my belly, which had been in such wicked condition all day, felt right as rain after that dinner.

    The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

  • There were no welcoming ports in which to enjoy shore leave near their fever-ridden base on Porto Praia, so the squadron would sail north to the island of Madeira.

    Hanging Captain Gordon Ron Soodalter 2007

  • There were no welcoming ports in which to enjoy shore leave near their fever-ridden base on Porto Praia, so the squadron would sail north to the island of Madeira.

    Hanging Captain Gordon Ron Soodalter 2007

  • It was a shopworn defense that presumed that there was nothing peculiar in sailing a ship hundreds of miles to the fever-ridden mouth of the Congo simply for an exchange of ownership papers.

    Hanging Captain Gordon Ron Soodalter 2007

  • It was a shopworn defense that presumed that there was nothing peculiar in sailing a ship hundreds of miles to the fever-ridden mouth of the Congo simply for an exchange of ownership papers.

    Hanging Captain Gordon Ron Soodalter 2007

  • It was a shopworn defense that presumed that there was nothing peculiar in sailing a ship hundreds of miles to the fever-ridden mouth of the Congo simply for an exchange of ownership papers.

    Hanging Captain Gordon Ron Soodalter 2007

  • It was a shopworn defense that presumed that there was nothing peculiar in sailing a ship hundreds of miles to the fever-ridden mouth of the Congo simply for an exchange of ownership papers.

    Hanging Captain Gordon Ron Soodalter 2007

  • After gold was discovered in California (1848), 180,000 Americans raced to the West Coast in the first two years, although the trip was expensive and life-threatening (six months around Cape Horn, a few months less via the fever-ridden Isthmus of Panama or a slightly shorter overland journey through hazardous Indian territory).

    The Economics Of The Rat Race 2007

  • There were no welcoming ports in which to enjoy shore leave near their fever-ridden base on Porto Praia, so the squadron would sail north to the island of Madeira.

    Hanging Captain Gordon Ron Soodalter 2007

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