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Word: chimerism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...stomping about, vacuum cleaning, banging the garbage pail, shoveling coal at all hours of the day & night, digging after dark in a garden by the Masons' windows. As soon as he went out, his telephone began ringing. Then they began hearing hit, new clocks-a half hourly loud chimer and an especially vigorous cuckoo clock-right above their bedroom. The Masons moved their bed into the living room, a maneuver that did not escape Smith's stethoscope. The clocks moved into the room directly above. Once during a three-day absence Smith left his radio blaring away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Battle of Bedlam | 3/2/1953 | See Source »

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