Word: hysteria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germany the days were darker now than the well-remembered black days of July, 1918. The Nazi leaders, in a hysteria of fury and fear, had been compelled to fight on a new front, within the fatherland. In & out of Germany the rumors flew: two divisions had mutinied in East Prussia; naval forces were in a state of mutiny; old Junker generals were being purged; 5,500 Army officers, including 34 generals, were arrested or executed...
Correspondents who heard these accounts concluded that the word for Germany's official state of mind was not hope. It was hysteria...
...from everyone involved, especially from Cinemactress Bergman. She wears her bustled gowns in a way to set off the flagrantly beautiful interiors of her home. The role's extremes of neurotic desperation are beyond healthy Miss Bergman, and, wisely, she never attempts the babbling hysteria or shrieking rages that made Judith Evelyn's performance the sensation of its first season on Broadway. But she brings fine and passionate insight to her gentler breakdown-which she enriches tremendously by.creating deep perspectives into the sort of woman this wife was before she was trapped...
...nine years on the Chicago Tribune. Their political differences did not disrupt their friendship until 1941, when in answer to a devastating Times attack on Tribune editorial policy, McCormick printed an editorial "These Jackals Grow Too Bold," referring to "old fat men who sit in comfortable offices fanning hysteria." Thomason spent a whole day devising a response which could be passed through the mails. Excerpts: "The ownership of rich properties does things to some people-to some newspapers. . . . Sometimes such owners mistake wealth and its power for greatness...
...hysteria and excitement arising from the Jap atrocities report let's not forget our other enemy. I hold no apology for the report. There could be none. But already I have heard people say: "Well the Germans are not that bad." Yes they are just as bad. Let's not forget Warsaw, or Lidice or the massacre of the three million Jews. Can there be anything worse than that...