Word: hysterias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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screaming meernies. n. extreme and intolerable terror or nervous hysteria: JITTERS. "about two jumps ahead of the screaming meemies...
...with space, silence, emptiness and snowbound darkness for 20 hours of every winter's day. The grim land was said to unhinge men's minds: bored Czarist officers in isolated forts broke the monotony by playing Russian roulette. Settlers in the barren north fell victim to "arctic hysteria...
...realization and understanding of wartime hysteria permitted Nisei to go along without undue trouble, as an all-out war effort on our part. Every loyal American sacrificed in one way or another. We Nisei did a little more than some others...
After all, who started all the Berlin trouble anyway? he asked with the cool aplomb of a circus shell-game proprietor. Certainly not the Soviet Union, he answered himself. "A military hysteria is now being drummed up in the United States," he said. "Comrades, it must be said frankly that the Western powers are pushing the world to a dangerous divide, and the threat of an armed attack on socialist states cannot be excluded." Khrushchev hastily repeated his assurance that Russia means no harm in Berlin with its proposed East German peace treaty. "We do not intend to infringe upon...
...hostess instructed them to stay in their seats: "We may be flying on to Havana." Cody Bearden lounged in the doorway of the cabin, casually swinging his .45 revolver and keeping a sullen eye on the frightened passengers. Then a pregnant female passenger seemed to be approaching hysteria about her plight, and Leon Bearden apparently thought he could see an uncontrollable situation in the making. He recruited four passengers to remain as voluntary hostages, and allowed the other passengers to leave. One among the four was a lanky, laconic fellow named Leonard Gilman, who happened to be an off-duty...