Word: hysteria
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fire-Raisers, apart from putting an end to Etienne's bachelordom. is to be utterly normal and healthy-to sit calmly, creating real life among people who are doing their utmost to dodge it. In proportion as Agatha swells in bulk, the valley dwellers swell in hysteria, as if they must at all costs escape the growing terror of the future. By the time Agatha's baby is born, they have become mad enough to set the whole bush in flames...
...riot in Chicago's Trumbull Park [TIME, March 1] was completely nauseating. For every American soldier who died in the fight for freedom, the people of Trumbull Park, by their display of mob hysteria, have made that soldier's fight...
...surging, yelling hysteria of the Sydney people, which you Americans have attributed to the ignorance of staring hooligans and wild colonials, was only our spontaneous, uninhibited and uncontrollable greeting to the Queen . . . You, who have no monarch, can never understand...
...this a country of free enterprise, courage, risk taking and initiative, or is it in a state of hysteria and fear psychosis?" The question was asked last week by Ohio Lawyer Charles Phelps Taft, 56, brother of the late Senator, in a speech on tariffs at Chicago's World Trade Conference. In answering his own bristling question, Midwesterner Taft let fly at the chemical industry and others who want tariffs kept high. Said...
...Civil Service investigations were conducted did not lend itself any too readily to televised dramatics. The official government statement made in 1952 makes clear the effort to avoid hysteria; "In establishing rules for security in the Civil Service with respect to Communists, Fascists and their fellow-travellers, the British Government has been concerned to protect vital state secrets while at the same time interfering as little as possible with the civil liberties of the individual. In order to do this, a distinction is drawn between secret and non-secret posts. To have associations with Communists or Fascists does...