Word: hysterias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...character. He declared that France must acquire "le climat psychologique de la baisse," which could be interpreted as "the art of sinking." For Schuman's job was not only to deflate prices; he had to deflate the grand illusions, the bitterness, the suppressed (and sometimes open) hysteria, and indeed the sense of frustrated tragedy which France had acquired in three wars and on which both the Communists and De Gaulle thrive. Schuman had to show France-if he could-how she could sink gently, down to the solid reality of earth...
...fortnight ago, in a swivet of anti-Yanqui hysteria, Panama's National Assembly unanimously rejected the U.S.-proposed treaty for 14 defense bases on Panamanian territory. Last week, to Panama's astonishment, the U.S. promptly ordered its armed forces to vacate all bases outside the U.S.-controlled Canal Zone, including the big bomber base at Rio Hata...
...mainland U.S. had ever shown in their neglected Pacific paradise, 2,400 miles west of San Francisco's Golden Gate. The luridly revealed racial complexities of the territory became the subject of scandalized interest on the mainland, and touched off a deep national uneasiness. In the hysteria, fanned by U.S. editors playing up a gaudy story, and by the U.S. Navy, which saw its gold-buttoned dignity assailed, some U.S. newspapers even tacitly condoned the lynching of Joe Kahaha...
...Knisely and his group went on to study the circulation in other diseased animals. Sure enough, sludged blood turned up in every animal and human being suffering from severe injury or disease. All told, they found red-cell clumping associated with over 50 conditions, from the common cold to hysteria...
Amateurs in the trade, thinking to circumvent John Law, were outlining plans for indoor operations late last night. Such "hysteria" was ridiculed, however by experts in the business...