Word: hysteria
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...sudden upsurge of patriotism accompanied by national hysteria is being built up by the government and the media for a single purpose: to prepare the public to accept and condone war,” Altshuler wrote in his Friday retort...
...14th Street Bridge and Arlington Memorial Bridge, leading to Virginia and past the Pentagon, had been closed, as were the airports and Union Station. On the corner of Constitution Avenue and 14th Street, day-care workers from the Ronald Reagan Building clutched frightened toddlers into a tight bunch. Hysteria was gripping the city: senior generals at the Pentagon phoned children and other relatives, warning them not to drink tap water for the next 36 hours. They feared reservoirs might be poisoned...
...14th Street Bridge and Arlington Memorial Bridge, leading to Virginia and past the Pentagon, had been closed, as were the airports and Union Station. On the corner of Constitution Avenue and 14th Street, day-care workers from the Ronald Reagan Building clutched frightened toddlers into a tight bunch. Hysteria was gripping the city: senior generals at the Pentagon phoned children and other relatives, warning them not to drink tap water for the next 36 hours. They feared reservoirs might be poisoned...
...fueled some of China's most dramatic confrontations. The 1919 May Fourth movement, still a potent symbol of resistance, advocated Western notions of science and democracy. When conservative forces rejected those demands, China slipped back toward insularity. During the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s, Mao whipped up an antiforeign hysteria that prompted the Red Guards to attack all things imported. In 1967, they burned down the British chancery in Beijing. Protesters at Tiananmen Square in 1989 echoed calls for adopting the liberal political approach of the West; the crackdown set China back yet again. "Throughout history, the Chinese have been...
...what happened? People don’t really know. The closest I’ve come to an answer was that the castle on a cloud we lived in wasn’t built on a solid foundation, but rather on unrestrained optimism, mass hysteria and, above all, pure greed. We knew in the back of our minds that this insane growth and prodigal lifestyle couldn’t last forever, yet the belief that the cow could be milked one day longer despite warning signs to the contrary made the fall that much more difficult. Of course, this truth...