Word: hysteria
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...executive fetish for secrecy has often been satirized, but until recently no steps have been taken to eliminate it. The extent to which documents of interest and importance to the public have been classified beyond the public's reach is still unmeasured. A product of Cold War hysteria, restriction of information has grown into a fundamental of Washington bureaucracy...
...pollute Japan's Pacific fishing grounds, the Japan Council Against Atom and Hydrogen Bombs noisily formulated plans to send a "peace fleet" into the 750,000 square miles of ocean which Britain has declared off limits to shipping between March i .and Aug. i. Driven by mounting public hysteria, the Japanese government five times formally requested the British to call off the test...
...disaster. Property damage-broken windows, cracked walls, crumbled brickwork -reached into the millions of dollars. But there were no deaths, and no really serious injuries (a woman dropped a coffeepot on her toe; a man broke his foot running downstairs at City Hall). There was some hysteria as the city went through a whole series of shocks (including the minor aftershocks), but San Franciscans-who cherish their earthquakes as they do their cable cars-generally took the day in stride. Perhaps the most characteristic act was that of the gift-shop owner who stood quietly with the customers during...
This reduction in tension--and even hysteria--which once surrounded intellectual activity, appears to be representative of a general emotional downgrading in other areas, Worthy said. He felt that the general high emotional level, predominant three years ago, was now greatly reduced in most areas...
...startling spectacle of the Indian fakir snuggled down on his bed of nails, or the martyr thrusting his hand into the flames, has often been explained by medical science on the basis of emotional disturbances (usually hysteria). In other cases, failure to react to pain may be due to severe mental retardation or physical damage to the nervous system. But there remains a baffling group of individuals to whom none of these explanations can be applied, and who show no reaction to pain of virtually any kind...