Word: hysteria
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...being caught, said calmly: "I haven't got my shoes on." It later turned out that little Francis, a child of Puerto Rican parents, knew only one English word, "Godfrey," and because of the influence of television, thought that it meant "tea bag." But amid the happy hysteria nobody minded...
...behavior is perhaps best described as manic-depressive ("when he's high he's higher than the sky is ... but oh, when he gets low he's got a heart of concrete and steel"), in a voice that seems to tremble itself on the edge of hysteria...
...bout with Porgy, she begins a blander number, e.g., After You've Gone or You Made Me Love You. But before the end of the first chorus, the song seems to take its own head, and her voice mounts until it sobs and gargles on the edge of hysteria. Next moment she is off again on a frenzied version of Tzena, Tzena, Tzena or Runnin' Wild, finally plunges into the doleful depths of Love for Sale, her standard windup number...
...court decision that perpetrators of the Deir Yassin massacre of women and children should receive government pensions is a severe blow to Israeli prestige. Morally, the action was a greater crime than the original massacre, because it came in a period of relative peace, without the pressure of war hysteria or the heat of battle. The court has condemned itself [yet] no people on earth have a longer history of regard for human rights...
...evidence confirmed that he had sex relations with Victims 5, 6 and 7. The case for the defense had been made: Christie was that rare and unhappy human monster, a necrophile. With the evidence of a psychologist who swore that Christie's crimes were the result of "gross hysteria," the defense counsel aimed for a jury verdict of "Insane...