Word: paranoias
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...daughters was awarded to Courtnie's father rather than to her sister, as she says she was promised. This, she said, would end all hope of a peaceful settlement. "They see me get screwed, and they know they're going to get screwed." Unless blood is thicker than paranoia...
...when you're horny, beat up a rival trying to make time with your estranged girlfriend. Beware the cable guy bearing gifts. Indeed, beware anyone emerging out of the hostile anonymity of modern city life who is too anxious to assuage your anomie. If bitter experience has taught our paranoia anything, it's that excesses of accommodation are all too often aggression's most winsome disguise...
INDEPENDENCE DAY (July 3). Illegal aliens invade Congress; President unites America by marshaling a counterattack. Satire or prophecy for campaign '96? Or just a safety valve--a chance to vent our paranoia in the 'plexes, where it belongs...
...Nixon) and another part in Washington as a congressional aide. His thinking doesn't stop at the county line. Prosecutors, led by Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Hartzler, plan to lay the crime squarely at the feet of Nichols and McVeigh, two Army buddies immersed in the furies and paranoia of the extreme right wing. Jones plans to go global, arguing to the jury that his client is just a pawn in a conspiracy so vast that even he's not sure yet just what...
There are the physical scars that many will bear forever. And there are the psychic scars: the uncomprehending grief at the loss of loved ones; the paranoia that it could happen again, maybe this April 19; the anxiety brought on by the wait for the trial of accused bombers Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols. According to one survey, 38.5% of the state respondents personally knew a victim of the blast. "The psychological healing has a long way to go,'' says Governor Frank Keating, who lost three friends and can still choke up during interviews. "All of us are still sensitive...