Word: hysterias
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...less grim was Cairo, which seemed seized at once by confusion, hysteria and dismay. Unshaven soldiers guarded major intersections and the Nile bridges. Walls were still plastered with tattered victory posters depicting the Egyptian eagle pouncing on the viper of Israel. For no apparent reason, there was a half-hour air-raid alarm during the lunch hour one day. Newsstands hawked such paperbacks as The Defense of Towns and Hoitse-to-House Fighting. The government warned that watches, cigarette packs and fountain pens found in the streets were probably booby traps dropped by Israeli planes. Only one of the city...
Despite the Disorders. If any country ever seemed too irrational to possess weapons of mass destruction, it is Mao Tse-tung's China. In the nine months since the aging (73) Mao launched his xenophobic Cultural Revolution, China has lurched dangerously close to anarchy and hysteria. Government control has broken down in vast areas. Even Mao's own forces of Red Guards, workers and army troops have started fighting among themselves. The wall posters in Peking tell of daily bloody battles, riots and vandalism all across the stricken land. Red China's blast showed that, despite...
...history, more than 20,000 U.S. civilians fled the area by cab and cattle boat, cruise ship and jetliner. About 35,000 Americans-mostly oil-company employees, military personnel and foreign service officers-remained behind, but U.S. consulates and embassies were ready to evacuate them as well should Arab hysteria continue to rise...
...Elizabeth Ashley. Jane's performance is the best of her career: a clever caricature of a sex kitten who can purr or scratch with equal intensity. Among the tastiest leftovers from the stage are Redford as the harassed groommate and Mildred Natwick, skittering on the edge of hysteria as she articulates the film's philosophy to her daughter: "Make him feel important. If you do that, you'll have a happy and wonderful marriage, like two out of every ten couples...
...Islands. Just why has never been satisfactorily explained. Proponents of such a theory fail fully to credit the logic of the Japanese mind"?1 Or who, in 1933, after reading a speech by Chancellor Adolf Hitler, wrote: "We have heard once more, through the fog and the din, the hysteria and the animal passions of a great revolution, the authentic voice of a genuinely civilized people. I am not only willing to believe that, but it seems to me that all historical experience compels one to believe...