Word: hysterias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...possible when men's minds are accustomed to great transformations, but will be infinitely more difficult when post-war inertia and fatigue set in. This analysis of the conservative mind exemplifies magnificently the value of the Marxian approach when it is applied coolly rather than with emotionally supercharged hysteria...
...trouble-as it is doing now. "Certain peculiarities of the disease-the apparent lack of interconnection between cases, the mysterious manner of spread .. . the ineffectiveness of control measures, and the terrifying effect on the morale of the post," were noted by Borden & Strong at a Virginia camp recently. "The hysteria caused by the meningitis," they found, "is almost as difficult to handle as the disease itself...
With the possible exception of Joseph Clark Grew, there is no one as well qualified to explain the Japanese to Americans as Hugh Byas. Ambassador Grew spent ten years in Japan, Hugh Byas spent 36. Both loved the Japanese and were apparently loved by them. Both prefer facts to hysteria...
OPAdministrator Leon Henderson then sadly misjudged mass psychology. He announced the rationing a month in advance to forestall "even more confusion and hysteria," got confusion confounded...
Price Boss Leon Henderson said he had announced the rationing in advance to forestall "more confusion and hysteria than even now exists on the subject of coffee." Coffee sales will be completely halted for a week before rationing begins. Then sugar ration stamp No. 28 will become coffee ration stamp...