Word: hysterias
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...days later, on the fourth anniversary of the dethronement of ex-King Farouk, the West got a jolting reminder that Nasser has a nasty bite as well as a loud bark. Stridently haranguing a crowd of more than 150,000 with semi-hysteria reminiscent of Hitler, Nasser shouted denunciation of Israel, Britain and the U.S. for an hour and a half, then, with apparent irrelevance, turned his fire on World Bank Director Eugene Black...
...social poison is stated. There is no forgiveness of trespasses, but a meting-out predating the New Testament. Joseph has made of himself a human albatross, and he and the ones who have wronged him will hang together to the end. Fletcher, the white man, is left in a hysteria of frustration, "dancing there, solitary in the veld, a grotesque little figure, capering under a blazing...
...Christians as much as of Jews. From the time Hitler took power in 1933 he held German honor in prison, and it is a sort of miracle that honor's voice was ever heard, and that it should speak, not as might be expected, in hatred and hysteria, but in the grave tones of Christian charity...
...After the war began, the nervousness and hysteria which Stalin demonstrated, interfering with actual military operations, caused our army serious damage . . . When there developed an exceptionally serious situation for our army in 1942 in the Kharkov region ... I telephoned Vasilevsky [Chief of Staff] and begged him: 'Alexander Mikhailovich, take a map and show Comrade Stalin the situation which has developed . . .' We should note that Stalin planned operations on a globe. Yes, comrades, he used to take the globe and trace the front on it ... [But] Stalin didn't want to hear any more arguments on the matter...
...committed to the life of a priest. On the same boat, the family slings , a bullock they have sold away to Galway. The loading is botched and so, in emotional terms, is the boy's farewell; the family is torn by an anguish it can only express in hysteria and anger. The boy himself believes that he is being sent to the priesthood to eke out the family income, and his fate, anticlerical O'Flaherty suggests, is little different from that of the dumb ox. In eleven pages the reader gets a minor masterpiece of human misery...