Word: deliriums
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...Arab world last week reeled in a delirium of joy. Damascus Radio repeatedly shrieked, "Ahlan Bil Wahda!" (Welcome to union). When Syrian soldiers sent bursts of tracer bullets streaking against the night sky, the radio announcer hastily told his excited listeners that it was not revolution but jubilation. THE DREAM HAS COME TRUE! headlined a Beirut paper. Aleppo nearly exploded: its main streets became a sea of screaming humanity, and cars inched along honking their horns to the rhythm...
...Four Days of Naples. On Sept. 8, 1943, the day Badoglio surrendered to Eisenhower, the lid of a manhole lifted hesitantly in a Neapolitan alley and a draft dodger squinted at the unaccustomed sunlight. "La 'uerr' ê finood'!" the mob above him bellowed in delirium. The war was over for Sicily, si. But for Naples it was far from over. On Sept. 12, the Panzers rumbled into town as the Italian garrison stumbled off in all directions. Then flying squads of German soldiers burst into the Vomero, the city's principal slum, and gun-butted...
...audience, faces contorted as mothers and wives, fathers and brothers saw their loved ones. Cubans are a passionate people-passionate in their hopes and their hungers, in their politics, their patriotism and their personal relationships. They stood tensely at attention for The Star-Spangled Banner -and then came delirium, as prisoners and families rushed together in a frenzy of love. One elderly woman said it for all. "See," she cried as she clung to a young man. "He is my son. He is my son, and I am embracing and kissing...
Brown fans had built themselves up to a state of delirium by the time the game had begun. Then Bruin forward Terry Chapman scored on a hard shot past goalie Godfrey Wood, and the delight on the Brown side of the rink knew no bounds...
...down the third-base line. Willie Mays grabs a handful of dirt and edges away from second. Yankee Pitcher Ralph Terry peers nervously at Batter Willie McCovey. A single means the ball game. Terry throws, McCovey swings. Crack! Second Baseman Bobby Richardson flings out his glove. Plunk. Joy, sorrow, delirium, despair-and cut to razor-blade commercial. For the 20th time in 27 tries, the New York Yankees are the world champions of baseball, richer by something like...