Word: hysterias
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...poetry of departure." Instead of honor and recognition, his Fleurs du Mal brought him ignominy, and a court order suppressing six of the poems as obscene. Five years later came the crisis in his long descent towards damnation; on Jan. 23, 1862, he wrote, "I have cultivated my hysteria with delight and terror . . . and today I have received a singular warning. I have felt the wind of the wing of madness pass over me." Baudelaire was dying slowly of syphilis...
...rejection of cooperation between communists and non-communists in the same organization is a retreat in the face of current anti-red hysteria, and serves only to weaken the 'Liberal Union's struggle against reaction and to strengthen the hand of our enemies," they said...
...Projecting sound rays into the stratosphere. 29. Generally regarded as "mass hysteria" were the reports...
...became evident that rescue operations, no matter how desperate, had to begin-the plane had begun to leak and many passengers were approaching the point of hysteria. Captain Cronk signaled a suggestion that the chief pilot call for volunteers. Three of the seamen got calmly into a rubber raft, were let down toward the cutter on a line and were safely picked up by coast guardsmen...
...choice will be simple one: should dateless students have preference over their paired-up friends? Behind this transparent question, however, lies a historical vista of squabbling precedents and eternal unhappiness; and if the ballots are marked on the basis of this year's hysteria only, by 1948 hordes will be "blasting the H.A.A. system" again...