Word: hysterias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tokyo and Berlin, in their peculiar fashions, caught the hysteria: they yowled that MacArthur in Australia was just one more Allied commander in flight. The New York Sun's London correspondent attained a height of adulation. Not since Valentino, the correspondent reported, had Londoners succumbed to any man as they had succumbed to MacArthur's "looks and personality." Unmuzzled at last, the Australian press headlined: THE MAN OF THE MOMENT...
...Exploding Party, also working for independence, chose the bomb. Most shocking revelation of Japan's fear of Koreans came in the Tokyo earthquake. Then, because the rumor grew that Koreans were taking advantage of the disaster to blow up bridges, cut wires, Japanese went into a wave of hysteria that made the Orson Welles broadcast scare look like a session of the Supreme Court. When it was over, at least 500 (perhaps as many as 5,000) Koreans living in Tokyo had been slaughtered...
...mama nor Damballa is worshiped, Negro Baptists do not run into the water under possession by African gods. Their water rituals are those of baptism. Yet it is significant that, as the novitiate . . . is immersed, the spirit descends on him at that moment if at all, and a possession hysteria develops . . . almost indistinguishable from the possession brought on by the African water deities...
...raids like the one made recently by a little woman with a brown bag who causally filled her bag with sugar and departed without even saying thank you. They now have posted a sign saying that the sugar is being apportioned at the counter because of the present "Public Hysteria...
Correspondent Stowe's parting snipe was a mixture of hysteria and bad taste: "The Burma Road abuses definitely threaten to throw a much larger burden of combat throughout eastern Asia upon the Americans and the British." The Chinese remembered that for four years they had borne all the burden of combat in eastern Asia...