Word: hysteria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...veteran of the first World War (U.S. Marines) and a veteran of cruiser action in the Guadalcanal campaign, I celebrate these symptoms of vision and realistic idealism among veterans of World War II. This time we may rise above nationalistic and racialistic hysteria and above the familiar and disgraceful Legion lobbyism. We may demand, by virtue of our veteran power, instead, the kind of statesmanship that will indefinitely postpone World War No. III. It is high time...
...Were The Days (TIME, Dec. 27) "will be read and remembered when the apologies of current admirals and the postured stompings and poutings and cries of 'Me, I'm the bravest one' of war correspondents have been baled up for the winter furnace. The heroics and hysteria of wars are mostly dreary stuff...
Witches' Broth. Private Borchers' letter landed plop in the midst of the West's most violent racial hysteria since "Yellow Peril" pioneer days. The 112,000 U.S. Japanese evacuated from the West Coast had become the object of hatred more intense than the anti-German-American feeling of World War I. The U.S. mortally hates and fears the Jap; but the furiously boiling stew had many other ingredients. Professional patriots, demagogues and sensational newspapers, led by the Hearst press, were vigorously stirring the witches' broth...
...when I noticed the bullets were hitting six inches to the right or six inches to the left. I remember laughing inside and saying: 'You , you certainly are lousy shots.' That, as I told Colonel Carlson the next day, is what I now call my hysteria period...
...sudden uproar of hysteria the city was still dead. The marks of death were all around. Allied shells, allied bombs which had rained incessantly since October 1940, had wrecked the waterfront. German torch and dynamite had finished the havoc...