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Word: hysterias (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Virginia game still had its repercussions yesterday, especially for those who went south. It all started Monday night when this weary scribe made his helated return upon a scene of near hysteria. Lost was any chance of writing a simple story about the football game. Harassed reporters, most of whom had stayed in Boston, converged from all directions with their own bits of vital news gathered from the usual reliable sources...

Author: By Robert W. Morgan jr., | Title: Egg In Your Beer | 10/16/1947 | See Source »

...small voice in the corner mentioned that Wally Flynn and Jack Guidera were playing fullback and a chorus of voices with four days of intersectional indoctrination chorused, "Man, ah reckon you're crazier 'on some of them damn Yankees." The hysteria set in again...

Author: By Robert W. Morgan jr., | Title: Egg In Your Beer | 10/16/1947 | See Source »

...murder, but only two years later the Encyclopedia Britannica recorded that ". . . public opinion of the world felt the execution had taken place less upon the evidence than for the crime of holding extreme opinions." Today there is a more insidious movement spreading over the nation than the red hysteria that engulfed the early twenties. "The crime of holding extreme opinions" becomes a graver offense each day as more and more individuals do not express their true political beliefs for fear of economic and social organization...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Plaque and Prejudice | 10/16/1947 | See Source »

...Instead of the great leadership demanded to guide the world to peace, it has legislated in prejudice, hysteria and fear. It has failed to meet the urgent needs of relief and rehabilitation overseas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wallace On . . . | 10/1/1947 | See Source »

...Unless they are stopped, the present methods of fighting communism and socialism by whipping up hysteria and invoking systems of thought control will give us a police state here. We cannot preserve and improve our system of democratic capitalism by undermining our high standard for human rights and civil liberties...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wallace On . . . | 10/1/1947 | See Source »

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