Word: hysterias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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state of mind as hysteria created by President Roosevelt; after he finished speaking. 150 protesting phone calls jammed the station switchboard; no calls came to support...
...this whole problem of "America's Relation to the War" I spoke in October to a group of Harvard undergraduates who were members of the American Independence League. I deplored the waves of hysteria which were already sweeping the country and urged that the problem of possible American participation be viewed in the light of American interests, broadly conceived. I urged that American interests were then as always "tied up with guesses on the future' and that it would be unwise to adopt dogmatic attitudes. "What we need in the coming weeks and months is not a doctrinaire position, stubbornly...
...allocated experimentally, it now has 42,000-50,000 kilocycles, will presently be able to spot stations all over the land. Meanwhile, television must plainly label television experimental, must readjust its transmitters in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles to one of its other bands. Bubbling with confusion, excitement, hysteria, the radio industry, feeling the hot breath of revolution on its neck, last week gazed fitfully into the future. Some of its visions were sad, some glad. Among them...
...defense corps and rifle clubs that popped up all over the U. S. made it plain that no mere appropriation of money could give the U. S. a sense of security, satisfy the U. S. demand for action. Springing from hysteria, an itch for publicity, a deep-seated fear that official defense measures might be botched, or a resurgence of the old backwoods instinct that nothing so calms a man's nerves as polishing a rifle, defense organizations flourished so widely last week that they belonged, as did fifth-column talk, in the category of a national phenomenon...
...sentences which loop and wind halfway down the page. To stress the dynamic nature of disease, he invented a new system of classification based on the Greek root erg (from ergon, work). Medical students in his courses, who had to learn such tonguetwisters as ergasiatry (psychiatry), oligergasia (idiocy), merergasia (hysteria), promptly for got them after examinations. Although few understand just what Dr. Meyer says, all his colleagues know what he means. (At a Hopkins celebration once, a student delivered a long speech in Chinese, then announced: "You have just heard a lecture in psychobiology...