Word: hysteria
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communist Left, described America's European allies as "unrecognizably neurotic" and disloyal. But this week Editor John Chamberlin sent a "Newest Freeman" to fifty university cities. It sports a glossy cover and four full page ads--but what is more important, The Freeman has sobered up. Its former hysteria has dissolved into gloom...
...There is far too much malicious whispering on both sides of the Atlantic about the alleged carelessness of the British and the alleged hysteria ... in the United States...
...only March now, and already the wires are chattering out the intrigue of the training camps. Soon the teams will be swinging north, and editors will start burying the war in a box somewhere beneath the exploits of the Toledo Mudhens. The great national hysteria is hard upon us. The annual auto-da-fe is here...
...possibility of a hearing which is almost as unpleasant. Justice Douglas' dissent, which predicted a vertitable spy system growing up in the New York school system, is not so alarmist as it might appear at first reading, for if current affairs serve to magnify the public's present Red hysteria, accusations can be expected to increase by geometric progression...
Upstairs, Resident Dr. Paul Crowley began working up her case in earnest. "Looks like catatonic schiz to me," he said. "But until she comes to and we have a psychiatrist in-who knows? It could be a guilt-complex hysteria." He fed the girl emetic soap water, which she promptly vomited up. The second time, she came to, pleading, "Not again. Please, not again." Dr. Crowley entered her name on the roster of patients to be seen by a psychiatrist on Monday...