Word: hysterias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rejection of cooperation between communists and non-communists in the same organization is a retreat in the face of current anti-red hysteria, and serves only to weaken the 'Liberal Union's struggle against reaction and to strengthen the hand of our enemies," they said...
...Projecting sound rays into the stratosphere. 29. Generally regarded as "mass hysteria" were the reports...
...became evident that rescue operations, no matter how desperate, had to begin-the plane had begun to leak and many passengers were approaching the point of hysteria. Captain Cronk signaled a suggestion that the chief pilot call for volunteers. Three of the seamen got calmly into a rubber raft, were let down toward the cutter on a line and were safely picked up by coast guardsmen...
...choice will be simple one: should dateless students have preference over their paired-up friends? Behind this transparent question, however, lies a historical vista of squabbling precedents and eternal unhappiness; and if the ballots are marked on the basis of this year's hysteria only, by 1948 hordes will be "blasting the H.A.A. system" again...
Very Healing Guy. The man his friends call Ock is 6 ft. 1½ in. of unassuming reticence. He has a shy smile that creeps out from under an almost constant frown. He walks slowly, with gangling dignity, like a freshman playing a Roman emperor. In a business where hysteria is honorable and neuroticism normal, he seems completely untemperamental. Baffled by normalcy as heathen are baffled by saintliness, show people from Sardi's to Giro's see him in an unearthly glow. Says Razzmatazzman Billy Rose: "What do I think about him? That's like asking...