He didn't want to get them at a fever pitch too early.
By the end of May 1978, the nation was at fever pitch.
He also always brought the crowd to a fever pitch.
"I have never seen a population rise to such a fever pitch!"
By yesterday, things had reached something of a fever pitch.
"You're not going to get people into a fever pitch."
"The call for reform has now reached a fever pitch."
The new information raised their hopes to a fever pitch.
What he had to tell me brought my excitement to fever pitch.
And as they did, their excitement reached a fever pitch.
