Word: stupors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pickwickian remembers the drowiness of Dickens' Fat Boy, whose master constantly prods him awake, crying: "Joe! -Damn that boy, he's gone to sleep again." Dickens did not know it, but Joe was a victim of a rare nervous disorder known as narcolepsy* (from the Greek narke, stupor, and lepsis, seizure). When narcoleptics experience certain emotions -anger, fear, grief, amusement-they crumple up, fall sound asleep. Less than 100 cases have ever been reported...
...apparently the dormant Yardling aggregation awoke from its previous stupor in Saturday's 20 to 0 set-to with Andover, when they realized practically all of Boston's dreams by pulverizing the school-boys offensively, while holding them well in check on the defense...
...German press whipped itself up to find extravagant titles, came through with "Lord of Battle," "Victor of 1940 and Victor over 1918," "Rouser out of Stupor," "Leader from Darkness into Light," "Triumphator...
...Bordeaux: "Thus came the end of 20 years of errors and faults. We shall not say of crimes, since we still believe that those who have brought us to this pass were merely ignorant and blind-but they have drawn us into an adventure that dumbs us with stupor." So shattered was France's strength, so humbled her prestige, that a greater miracle than Germany's rise after Versailles would be needed ever to restore them...
...generally consider alcoholism a disease, specifically a psychoneurosis. Alcoholics generally drink, not just because they like liquor, but to escape from something-a mother fixation, inferiority feelings, an intolerable domestic situation, social or economic maladjustment. They may suffer the torments of the damned, even while drinking themselves into a stupor, and especially in the brief period between waking up with a remorseful, clattering hangover and getting down the first drink of the day. Psychiatrists try to help them by discovering the hidden reason for drinking and showing how it can be removed. But cynics in sanatoriums, watching a sober...