Word: hysteria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though both Rumanian and German troops promptly occupied key buildings in Bucharest, murder followed murder as the hours sped by. Twenty Carolists were killed in the Ploesti oil fields. There the riots quickly turned from politics to racial hysteria, and 2,000 Jews were said to have perished. More were killed in Galati, where Iron Guardists stormed and slaughtered through the Jewish quarter...
...continue his carte blanche investigations will irk neither the rouges nor the noirs so much as it will upset the sincere democrats in this country. If there is any one man today who symptomizes the tendency in a crisis period towards the rise of a vigilante spirit of hysteria, it is the Honorable Gentleman from Texas...
...caught up is the picture in its own hysteria, that it overlooks the fact that the pastor never fights. Not once did he even strike a strom trooper. Not once did he exhort his parishioners to do so. He is the "turn-the-other-cheek" type of Christian. Yet Jimmy Roosevelt ('37) tries to transmute this inspiring figure into a little tin Christ. If it weren't so ominous, we could afford to laugh...
...will always retain this safeguard. By merely repealing this clause, Congress can rule that registered persons henceforth inducted into the land forces of the United States shall be employed in any war in which the government at the moment, perhaps compelled by imperialistic monopoly interests or mob hysteria, may see fit to engage...
...qualm. But the possibility of war was something else. For three weeks the mills have been laying in all the silk they could get. Last week they pushed the price (for future delivery) up 22? to $2.82½ a lb. U. S. Silk Importer Paolino Gerli called it "hysteria." He also forecast that by the end of November. U.S. silk stocks (now about two months' supply) would have doubled. But knitters and weavers, reflecting that a war with Japan would last longer than four months. noted that Du Pont was speeding its nylon plant expansion and intensified the buying...