Word: hysterias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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March of the Half-Dead. Some of the prisoners ran on bare, swollen feet out through the main gate toward the hill which the raiders pointed out to them. Some of them in hysteria tried to embrace and kiss their rescuers. Some of them, bedridden, found themselves hoisted pickaback by sweating soldiers...
Said the Association's grey-haired, pugnacious president Major General Ellard A. Walsh : "They say we must pass it now or never pass it. But if you put anything over on the American people during a period of war hysteria it is likely to be repealed. Prohibition was an example of that...
...shows no signs of weakening. Natives call it El Monstruo. Belching 2,700 tons of fiery rock a minute, the crater has over-awed hundreds of tourists. At its more spectacular moments, spectators break into applause. One woman, after watching for a few minutes, broke into tears and hysteria. Hardened volcanologists, by their own account, have come away dazed and with knees shaking. Said Dr. William F. Foshag of the Smithsonian Institution: "It is, I believe, just as spectacular as Vesuvius ever was, and in its more violent phases it is better...
...week's end Mattoon was gripped by semi-hysteria. Authorities were poring over records of patients released from Illinois insane asylums, seeking a clue to the Mad Anesthetist's identity; five state police cars arrived to help. Private automobiles full of vigilantes armed with shotguns rolled slowly along the streets at night. Other citizens were taking pistols and shotguns to bed, and sleeping behind closed windows. Mattoon's police commissioner, as alarmed by this display of armament as by the depredations of the Anesthetist, pleaded with the vigilantes to disband...
...Cambridge, Bill wrote a treatise on an ideal social economy, entitled it "Hesperia" (which his schoolmates nicknamed "Hysteria"). He began by locating his ideal community in a desirable latitude and longitude, and outlined many working economic features such as the staggered day of rest, etc., which seemed novel to us at the time. Later, by coincidence, the Soviet system embodied this and other devices in its own administration...