Word: hysteria
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Overwhelming all else was an alarmist screaming, a warning of one dire menace after another detected within our own sheepfold. The Black Tide of Reaction. Bourbonism. The Pentagon Mind. Red Hysteria. Neo-Fascism. Finally these nightmares were to materialize into twin super-menaces of such terrifying dimensions as to eclipse totally such trumped-up bogies as Stalin...
...planned a personal dictatorship. He turned down the title "Farik" (Marshal), refused to move into the royal palace. Impressed by Naguib's modesty, a Briton who has lived in Cairo 20 years said last week: "It's incredible that out of all this corruption and hatred and hysteria there has come so good a man-a good man in every...
...From Soviet State and Law: "Truman's America hastens to repeat Hitler's Germany . . . The U.S.A. is now in a state of war hysteria...
...patients can always describe their symptoms crisply, e.g., "I'm all nervous inside and pass out," or "I can't seem to remember things and I rave at night," and they know where they "hurt." Women hysteria patients, on the other hand, can never tell precisely what ails them: they babble vaguely and dramatically about aches & pains all over. And they commonly have twice as many symptoms...
...Robins and Cohen do not present their findings as final. Rather, they urge that data on "hysterical" men be kept separate from that on hysterical women. And if any physician finds a genuine case of old-fashioned hysteria in a man, they want to know about...