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gold fever

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Noun1.gold fever - greed and the contagious excitement of a gold rush
fever - intense nervous anticipation; "in a fever of resentment"


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NORTH HOLLYWOOD - Gold fever once again gripped the Golden State as a million residents anted up Wednesday for a 12-state lottery worth up to $500 million.
From the outset reader interest is held tight with flowing details of many colorful characters, burning buildings, sinking ships, gold fever and kidnappings.
Summarizing the deal in their story "Pat Robertson's Gold Fever," writers Bob Drury and Aram Roston wrote, "[I]t seems clear that in his lust to tap the lucre of the West African Craton [gold seam], the Reverend Pat Robertson has crossed a moral line in order to go into business with a torturer, a murderer, a barbarian who has supported thugs who lop off the arms of defenseless women and children.
 
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