Word: hysterias
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...green-clad fans, inebriated in the pre-game hysteria, blanched when Crimson linebacker fell on a Jeff Dufresne fumble on the third play from scrimmage. The Harvard offense, however, failed to get past the Dartmouth 30-yd. line on a fourth-and-one crack into the line, and from then forward, the Big Green assumed control...
...someone who has held that position-could intimate such a thing and I'm not asking for an apology from him. I think he owes the country an apology. I think he's a badly misinformed and prejudiced man. Certainly he's reaching a point of hysteria that is hard to understand...
...themselves from the stress, from the pain. The cafes in Buenos Aires are always full, the cinema always well-attended. People still buy their groceries and go to work, trying to ignore the underlying crisis. As one automobile worker said, "You keep on living. Despite the terror, despite the hysteria, life goes on in its contorted...
...collection of registrants' social security numbers. Saying that the ACLU is very optimistic about both encounters, Landau adds, "No one will buy the erroneous assertion that the defense system will fall apart without registration," and that, particularly in the case before the Supreme Court, "The government's tone of hysteria will not help...
...hosts were chastened, they were not letting on. Indeed, most ordinary Soviets hardly connected the boycott with Afghanistan; it was easier to blame it on anti-Soviet hysteria in the capitalist camp. "I wonder if Carter watched the opening ceremony," said one elderly housewife. "If he did, he must have been sorry not to be able to see it all. The poor Americans." Angered that Britain had only one marcher in the opening parade, a Soviet television announcer told viewers: "There is the clumsy plot... against the traditions of the Olympic movement...