Word: hysterias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pitch of frenzy, with ads in U.S. newspapers (paid for by the League for a Free Palestine) asserting that Gruner was still alive only because the pressure of U.S. opinion restrained the British from a "pogrom which will write finis to the Hebrews in Palestine." Amid this hysteria the actual crime in which Gruner had been involved was almost lost from sight. It contained in miniature the chief elements of the Palestine crisis...
...wave of hysteria should engulf the country simply because the highest court of the land has now defined the term "workweek" to include time spent upon the employer's premises at employer's request, including walking-time and time spent in performing various preliminary duties, such as changing clothes, sharpening tools, preparing machinery for production, and similar activities...
...which unions were swinging this legal club brought a cry of alarm last week from Judge Picard and even from Lawyer Lamb. Said Picard, who obviously thought many of the union suits were on flimsy ground: "There is no reason for this hysteria causing sleepless nights for some enterprises...
...Administration's 'yellow dog' injunction has reached the Supreme Court. . . . The Supreme Court is and . . . will ever be the protector of American liberties." He trembled on the verge of tears. "During its period of deliberation the Court [must] be free from public pressure superinduced by the hysteria and frenzy of an economic crisis...
...must be the business of a genuine liberalism not to relax our outer defenses but to make our political and economic life more worthy of our faith and therefore more impregnable. War with Russia is neither imminent nor inevitable if we have a creative policy. Let us, therefore, avoid hysteria even while we abjure sentimental illusions...