Word: hysteria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attitude.This time Friend McCormick did not follow his usual policy of ignoring Times criticism. His answer was a lead editorial titled "These Jackals Grow Too Bold." Calling the Times an inept, tottering pipsqueak sheet, the Tribune turned its contempt on "old fat men who sit in comfortable offices fanning hysteria...
TIME has again proved its leadership-this time in the reckless promotion of our entry into the European war. Your lying assumption that only a few traitors, etc. oppose the present war hysteria hits a new low in misrepresentation...
...accent that our American press and radio put now on the only ephemeral element in time-the present-exposes us dangerously to hysteria, to flotsam-and-jetsam thinking, judging and acting. Even more than a person, a people that would govern itself needs to be daily reminded that before this day time was, and after it time will be. Without this there can be no steady plowing through the calm and the storm, there can be only a tossing about on the wave...
...lumbermill town of Longview, Wash., where Bonneville will furnish power aplenty. Now Reynolds is confident that his 100,000,000-lb. output (by next July) plus Alcoa's 690,000,000 will take care of defense needs, adds: "We do not share the sudden and surprising hysteria as to an acute shortage...
...order that the students of Harvard University may fully recognize the character of the war psychosis or hysteria which is now driving the United States inevitably to war and which has been influentially stimulated by certain members of the administration of Harvard University, let me quote the following paragraph from The Mysterious Stranger written many years ago by Mark Twain...