Word: claustrophobia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...record revenues of $52 million, it lost a record $6 million. It also stirred up a record outcry from commuters when it broke down almost completely under the winter's snow storms (TIME, Jan. 5, 1948). (One passenger, after 8½ hours aboard one stymied train, complained of claustrophobia, sued the Long Island for "false imprisonment...
There is one school of thought which believes that Brown teams suffer a sense of claustrophobia when they play in the Stadium...
Walt W. Rostow (Yale '36) was a Rhodes Scholar just before the war. He enlivened many an Oxford sherry party by banging out a syncopated protest of his own composition (Claustrophobia Blues) on the piano. When not busy harmonizing or playing rugger for Balliol College, he was apt to be heavily engaged in a bull session. Later he got his Ph.D. at Yale and taught economics at Columbia before spending 32 wartime months abroad, ending up as an O.S.S. major in bombing intelligence. On that assignment he got to know W. Averell Harriman, who as U.S. Ambassador later...
Dictator Francisco Franco, like Dictator Stalin (see below), saw hostile foreigners around every corner. Last week he felt a sudden surge of claustrophobia...
Political Claustrophobia. The fear of encirclement (Einkreisung} has driven three generations of Germans to military adventures of which World War II is the latest and greatest. Professor Spykman's advice to Americans is not to fear, but to understand and prepare. The first step to preparation is a realistic U.S. foreign policy; at the time of his death he saw few signs...