Word: hysterias
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...Prioress' Revenge. Yet it was Sister Jeanne, prioress of the Ursulines, who brought the long delusion of Grandier to an end. In Huxley's interpretation, her native hysteria was aggravated by the abnegations of convent life; she began to have daydreams, and later night sweats, about the handsome priest. She offered him the post of director of her convent, and Grandier refused. Thereupon, as Huxley reads the evidence, Sister Jeanne's fantasies turned into a mania for sadistic revenge...
Take for example the patriarchial hero of "East of Eden," Samuel Hamilton. Talented as a blacksmith and inventor, Samuel also "had no equal for soothing hysteria and bringing quiet to a frightened child. It was the sweetness of his tongue and the tenderness of his soul...
Overwhelming all else was an alarmist screaming, a warning of one dire menace after another detected within our own sheepfold. The Black Tide of Reaction. Bourbonism. The Pentagon Mind. Red Hysteria. Neo-Fascism. Finally these nightmares were to materialize into twin super-menaces of such terrifying dimensions as to eclipse totally such trumped-up bogies as Stalin...
...planned a personal dictatorship. He turned down the title "Farik" (Marshal), refused to move into the royal palace. Impressed by Naguib's modesty, a Briton who has lived in Cairo 20 years said last week: "It's incredible that out of all this corruption and hatred and hysteria there has come so good a man-a good man in every...
...From Soviet State and Law: "Truman's America hastens to repeat Hitler's Germany . . . The U.S.A. is now in a state of war hysteria...