Word: hysterias
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Food and Drug Administration in Washington counts 270 incidents of suspected product tampering that have been reported around the country in the month since those Chicago-area deaths, and the total swelled rapidly last week. It clearly has been inflated by the hysteria of consumers who blame any nausea or headache on poisoned food and medicine; the FDA so far judges only 36 of the incidents to be "hardcore, true tamperings." Still, that was more than enough to send real rather than make-believe chills coursing through many parents as Halloween approached...
...quite possible that the collective hysteria that struck nation-wide last weekend indirectly caused these incidents to occur. With countless articles about the issue (prompted by countless meetings prompted by many over-reacting parents), newspapers and television spots put ideas into that many more sick heads. Just as paranoia builds on itself until the subject is immobilized, so the elaborate Halloween precautions may have spurred the very attacks they were meant to protect...
...children, children looking for pets. It was impossible to see through the wall of flame and smoke and everyone was sure their house was gone. Like sinners in the inferno, they ran in circles, blown by the winds, while lifeguards patrolled the beach to insure that in the hysteria, none ran back into the flames...
...movement, in fact, may be the collective acknowledgment that the world does not work very well with every man for himself. It is precisely that feeling which creates the links among the pillmakers, sellers, testers and users in the first place, a sense that life only progresses and avoids hysteria through various mutual dependencies, no matter how delicately wrought...
Cornell threw the match into overtime with 17 minutes left in regulation. Fisher took a low free kick from the right side that resulted in general confusion in the Harvard penalty box. Halfback Ted Heinrich used the hysteria to slip in the tying score...