Word: hysterias
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Some soldiers later speculated that their exhaustion had brought on hallucinations. Others thought it was mass hysteria, the result of a battle that was supposed to be easily won by the allies but had turned into a rout. But later stories emerged from the German side of the same incident. The Kaiser's soldiers said they found themselves "absolutely powerless to proceed . . . and their horses turned around sharply and fled." The Germans said the allied position was held by thousands of troops -- though in fact there were only two regiments there...
Some people have asked me if I find the mass American hysteria over Christmas rather odd, assuming that such an obsession is peculiar to the "materialistic" culture...
...biography of James Bryant Conant '13 suggests the Harvard president at times caved in to anti-Communist hysteria after World...
...failure of nerve at key moments...was very important in the general failure of the American educational establishment" in the fight for academic freedom and against the anti-Communist hysteria, Hershberg said yesterday...
...film Leigh's vision of London is stark. His tendency to hold the camera completely still lends the narrative an almost documentary quality--Leigh rests on Cyril's mum's lined and bitter face or on a view of her gloomy kitchen. Pauses like these counterbalance the near-hysteria of Leigh's social caricatures. And the breathing space they provide force one to contemplate how close to reality those caricatures are. Because you can take it from me that British society does still revolve around antiquated, almost tribal social rituals. And Mike Leigh does dissect them with a frightening precision...