Word: hysterias
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...word for it: "hysterics." They got the word from hystera, meaning womb, and they thought the trouble began when the womb strayed from its proper place. Naturally, they did not see how a man could have hysterics. Not until 2,000 years after Hippocrates did physicians suggest that hysteria (as the disorder came to be known) could occur in men, and even then they admitted it was rare. Now three psychiatrists who worked together in Boston have come to the conclusion that the Greeks were right the first time: what passes for hysteria in men is by no means...
...best the NSA can only have vague suspicions regarding the proposed conference. And when supposedly reliable organizations call for bans and level attacks on the basis of vague suspicions, one can only fear about the state to which the current hysteria is leading us. Judith Lee Stock, 4 Charieegate East, Boston
...Communist Left, described America's European allies as "unrecognizably neurotic" and disloyal. But this week Editor John Chamberlin sent a "Newest Freeman" to fifty university cities. It sports a glossy cover and four full page ads--but what is more important, The Freeman has sobered up. Its former hysteria has dissolved into gloom...
...There is far too much malicious whispering on both sides of the Atlantic about the alleged carelessness of the British and the alleged hysteria ... in the United States...
...only March now, and already the wires are chattering out the intrigue of the training camps. Soon the teams will be swinging north, and editors will start burying the war in a box somewhere beneath the exploits of the Toledo Mudhens. The great national hysteria is hard upon us. The annual auto-da-fe is here...