Word: hysteria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second feature "Obliging Young Lady," is a sideshow of irrelevant wisecracks, slapstick tangents and in one scene character actors are material for a mild case of hysteria...
...require even a third-grade education to digest or collate is not supposed to be repeated in print. Army's ideas of non-printable "secret" information thus included even such information as is contained in telephone directories and standard reference works. Washington correspondents hoped that the first hysteria of censorship would soon pass...
Seattle: The atmosphere is getting grim....Portland, Grays Harbor, Seattle and other centers blacked out tonight....There is none of that wild hysteria, such as was produced by Mr. Orson Welles, but people are worried. A woman called the city desk and said she heard sounds of bombings: "I'm not a bit excited," she said, "I just wondered if you heard bombs. ..." On Seattle blackout nights gangs of high-school boys and girls run the streets, yelling "Put out your lights" and having a wonderful time. In the early morning on the way to work no lights...
English eyebrows were raised at the reports of these U.S. jitters. They knew that nuisance raids by German planes across the Atlantic are possible but improbable. Even when Britain, in her darkest hour, was evacuating her shattered troops from Dunkirk, there was no great hysteria in London. But a large part of the U.S., including even some of its interventionists, had convinced itself that the U.S. was immune to direct attack, a handicap from which Britain did not suffer...
...hands." At the docks in San Diego, as the afternoon wore on, a crowd slowly grew. There were a few people, then more, then a throng, looking intently west across the harbor, beyond Point Loma, out to the Pacific where the enemy was. There was no visible excitement, no hysteria, and no release in words for the emotions behind the grim, determined faces...