Word: hysteria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senate, Republicans got an unexpected ally in loudmouthed, gummy-grinned lame duck Rush Holt (Dem., W. Va.), who rose to flay New York's Democratic Governor Herbert Lehman, who (along with Henry Wallace) had suggested that the Axis powers wanted Roosevelt beaten. Lehman himself was fanning a war hysteria, said Holt, in order to swell the dividends of Lehman Corp., of which his cousin is president, and which, said Holt, holds shares in Bendix Aviation, Vultee, Stinson and Lockheed Aircraft, Hercules Powder, Dow Chemical, New York Shipbuilding, Freeport Sulphur, and Bethlehem, Republic, Youngstown and U. S. Steel...
Hitler's constant bombardment of Britain has so far been unsuccessful in weakening the stamina of the English people, who show little hysteria despite their sleepless nights, are surprisingly free from war-time epidemic diseases, and display a growing confidence that they will...
This is what Commander Kelly said yesterday: "As well as my energies and abilities permitted, I have refused to allow the Legion to become a part in any attempt to lead this country to a second baptism of blood in foreign lands... An unparalleled hysteria gripped America and reached its apex in May when the low countries of France/collapsed/Every agency, Government and private, and the agencies of public information, seemed to have entered into an informant and fatalistic liason to whip the fears of this country to fever heat...
...need for defense, few will differ. But whereas Professor Elliott wants organized emotion, many will point out that the elimination of the hysteria attendant upon the volunteer system was one of the principal reasons for adopting conscription...
...campaign to prohibit absinthe, based on the popular beliefs that: 1) wormwood is an aphrodisiac; 2) continued use of aphrodisiacs produces impotence; 3) France is a nation of absinthe sippers; 4) therefore France as a nation is becoming impotent. Frenchmen's mortal fear of impotence, coupled with war hysteria and a falling birth rate, put the campaign over with a bang. Absinthe was banned in France on March 16, 1915. Pernod continued to make absinthe in Tarragona, Spain, but few countries allowed its consumption...