Word: hysteria
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...absence, a myth has been developed. I hope that the return of the mere man will help to dispel the myth ... I shall renew my efforts to dispel the deception that has been foisted on the American people." He said he hoped to "allay" the "fear and hysteria of these times." Asked if he planned to write a book, he replied: "I certainly intend to do some writing." A box wrapped in Manila paper, said to contain Hiss's notes and papers, was loaded into a red Chevrolet convertible. Then, with his family and two lawyers, Hiss drove...
John D. Wild, professor of Philosophy, found the censure vote "very encouraging and an affirmation of the dignity of the Senate." Wild said that the McCarthy methods, such as "preying on mass hysteria," have thus been labeled "definitely bad" by the action of the Senate...
...Elgin Hour, Massa Robert Cummings tried valiantly to save his old plantation from a flood, keep his ex-waitress wife at home, and bail out his amoral brother-in-law who had a tendency to shoot upstate troopers. On NBC's Lux Video Theater, there was plenty of hysteria mixed in with the wisteria as Massa Zachary Scott kept mooning about the veranda of his columned home while trying to make up his mind between a daughter of the Old South and a Northern hussy. On Robert Montgomery Presents, Paul McGrath played a Yankee who couldn't choose...
...resulting drama. Caroline dressed up as Poet Byron's page boy in a silver-laced jacket and scarlet pantaloons, bit large pieces out of her wine glass when she saw him talking to another woman. But Melbourne stood staunchly by his Fairy Queen, watching her glittering hysteria degenerate into madness. She died in 1828, leaving him the father of a half-witted...
...nothing else in modern U.S. history, in laying U.S. national behavior open to the most ludicrous caricature. Into the deadly struggle to turn back Communist aggression, to outsmart and outfight Communist parties threatening France and Italy, there suddenly seems to be injected a moment of farce, of hysteria edging on madness, when the news tickers of the world click out the report that Senator McCarthy is hot on the trail of a suspect typist trapped in the Pentagon labyrinth...