Word: hysterias
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...professors plan to speak at a mass meeting of students and faculty scheduled for the afternoon of their discussion day. They have no central position to make public, but will continue their call for rational thought, in place of hysteria or lethargy...
...heaviest fallout was emotional. Indignation, fear and an undercurrent of hysteria roiled the world from Milan, where pregnant peasant women were convinced they would bear monsters, to Kyoto, where Nobel Laureate Physicist Hideki Yukawa wailed that "humanity is now doomed with this cancer called the nuclear weapon...
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...
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...