Word: hypochondria
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...because the scientific establishment to which he belongs keeps warning us, every other day, it seems, of some new carcinogen that has been found in the air we breathe, the water we drink or the food we eat. Under these depressing circumstances, hypochondria seems to me not only normal but inevitable...
...plot is wafer thin. Henry Williams (Charles Repole) is slight in stature but huge in hypochondria, and so full of pills that when he sneezes "people around me get cured." By happenstance, Henry extricates Sally Morgan, a coy maiden winsomely played by Beth Austin, from the maritally-minded clutches of Sheriff Bob (J. Kevin Scannell), a sage brush Keystone Kop. Sally's true love is Hiawatha, or rather, Wanenis (Franc Luz), a noble North American savage from red-blooded Dartmouth. She gets him, and after a number of featherbrained misadventures, Henry finds perfect health and pneumatic bliss...
Midge Decter, author and journalist, on our "massive national hypochondria. We think of nothing so much as what we put into our mouths...
...touch of hypochondria has entered the outlook too. After robust growth during the first half of the year, the economy has paused during the summer. The leading indicators that are supposed to foretell the future course of business have been down slightly for the past three months in a row. In August, industrial production declined for the first time since January, and the unemployment rate rose slightly to 7.1%; joblessness among blacks equaled its post-World War II high. All that has stirred talk of lasting slowdown in the economy-or even a new recession...
...nurse administered a thorough review of my medical history before allowing me to give blood. She asked about everything from obscure childhood illnesses to what I had for breakfast that morning. This interrogation induced a temporary hypochondria forcing me to remember anything in my past that might compromise my ability to give blood. "What if I don't have enough?" I thought. The speed of the process left me no more time for injurious self-contemplation...