Word: hysterias
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...trial and the ensuing appeals occurred in an atmosphere of national hysteria. Abroad, U.S. troops were battling in Korea; at home, Senator Joseph McCarthy was waving lists of "Communists" he said had invaded the State Department. The Rosenberg prosecution had little trouble presenting an apparently crushing case against the couple, as well as against Co-Defendant Morton Sobell, whose own account of the trial and his nearly 18 years in prison was published in On Doing Time (1974). The Rosenbergs repeatedly took the Fifth Amendment when asked if they belonged to the Communist Party. Greenglass, the Government's star...
...another possible evacuation site, Newport, a cargo area near the port of Saigon. During the rush last week to get home before the special 24-hour curfew was imposed, traffic in Saigon was her-ringboned at every intersection. What then might happen in the midst of the real hysteria that will almost surely come in the capital's final hours...
John Elson, Marshall Loeb and Ronald Kriss. They worked with 18 writers and reporter-researchers from the Nation and World sections, four picture researchers and dozens of correspondents round the world. From Danang, where U.S. Marines first waded ashore into Viet Nam, Correspondent William McWhirter witnessed hysteria as Communist forces surrounded the city. At midweek, McWhirter was ordered out on an emergency evacuation flight to Saigon...
...since the death of Gamal Abdel Nasser nearly five years ago had the Arab world been so deeply shaken by the loss of a political leader. Across the Middle East, radio stations broke into their regular programs to replay the emotion-choked voice of the Riyadh announcer. Panic and hysteria swept through the dusty streets of the capital as the news spread. Fierce Bedouin tribesmen wept openly; army and police units moved into strategic positions throughout the city. Within hours, every Arab government had proclaimed extended periods of mourning. Egypt's President Anwar Sadat, who had received extensive...
...York over the past decade and here it is-and Bancroft cannot make much of the bits and scraps she is given. She is misdirected by Melvin Frank (A Touch of Class) to underline cartoon New York mannerisms: a threatened rasp in the voice that can easily twitch into hysteria, a battery of body movements that look like preliminaries for infantry combat...