Word: hysteria
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...three speakers on the subject: "Are We Losing Our Civil Liberties in the Search for Security?" Delaney told the audience it was to be congratulated for courageously attending the program in the midst of the current "hysteria." College students today are generally "too frightened to think" or to be seen at such a meeting, he declared...
...knowledge throughout the agency that something was up; T-men and FBI agents had made repeated visits, checked books, collected data. Finally, on Monday, April 12, the government acted: Guy T. Hollyday, chief of the FHA, was dismissed. The normally staid New York Times reached a pitch of near hysteria in reporting, "FHA Chief Out--Frauds Charged--U.S. Opens Study--Files to be Siezed." In an orgy of political moralizing, the press called up spectres of Minks. Deep-freezers and Teapot Dome...
...Fire-Raisers, apart from putting an end to Etienne's bachelordom. is to be utterly normal and healthy-to sit calmly, creating real life among people who are doing their utmost to dodge it. In proportion as Agatha swells in bulk, the valley dwellers swell in hysteria, as if they must at all costs escape the growing terror of the future. By the time Agatha's baby is born, they have become mad enough to set the whole bush in flames...
...riot in Chicago's Trumbull Park [TIME, March 1] was completely nauseating. For every American soldier who died in the fight for freedom, the people of Trumbull Park, by their display of mob hysteria, have made that soldier's fight...
...surging, yelling hysteria of the Sydney people, which you Americans have attributed to the ignorance of staring hooligans and wild colonials, was only our spontaneous, uninhibited and uncontrollable greeting to the Queen . . . You, who have no monarch, can never understand...