Word: hysteria
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tense uncertain faces, personal tragedies have graven bitter lines. Often, helpless hysteria bursts through the curtain of self-control; at other times, Germans seek emotional relief by unburdening their life stories to any listener. Whining and self-pitying creep into ordinary Conversations. The Germans are not yet a happy people. How could they...
...dreary propaganda sameness, and the flat insistency of a war-bond speech. No one was arguing back, but already there were signs that Congressmen are getting that comfortable feeling. Opined Georgia's budget-minded Senator Walter George last week: "There should be an end to the hysteria of giving the military everything it wants right now to the exclusion of the needs of the civilian economy...
...Place in the Country. He has won his place with a blend of "the fan approach," and a scholar's serious interest in the fine points of the game. His delivery is warmly enthusiastic without drifting into hysteria; his Southern accent is mild, not wild. Most important, he still adores baseball and never expects to tire of it. "Baseball," he explains, "is a vicarious thrill. I get to play all ten positions...
...being subjected to a labyrinth of ballyhoo, unequaled in my memory, of admiration of a man who is very easy to admire, and denunciation of another man who is all too easy to denounce, of pseudoauthoritative editorial comment ... I was gladdened when the clear light of TIME penetrated the hysteria and gave someone who wants to think something upon which to base his thoughts...
...that a world conflict might "destroy the entire body of the world." We in China do not share this fear. All the people I have spoken to about the atom bomb, from illiterate peasants to college professors, have no fear of the bomb. I have thus far seen no hysteria to compare with that of the U. S. just before I left. It is true that we have no intentions or wishes to to fight a world war. It would set our industrial output (now exceeding pre-Japanese war China) many years back. It would result in the death...