Word: hysterias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President, in his weekly press conference, had another label to stick on the investigations of Communist activities, which he once called a red herring. This time it was "hysteria...
...confident that no part of your executive branch is gripped by this hysteria?" one reporter wanted to know. Harry
Truman replied firmly that he was; he would clear the hysteria out if he knew of any. He was pretty relaxed about the whole thing...
...university, as the world has known it, is not a collection of timid souls vaccinated by jumpy men like Mr. Ober against ideo-logical disease. A university is a home for men free to grapple with an heretical germ and strong enough to resist the forces of fear and hysteria...
...Danger. No one has ever given a good reason why soccer, a game which stirs a large part of the world to hysteria, causes little but polite yawns in most of the U.S. The ardor with which U.S. fans pursue baseball is pallid compared with the interest of soccer fans in the 50-odd nations in which it is a national game. In Buenos Aires, referees are sometimes hustled out under police escort lest they be torn limb from limb by the spectators. From Moscow to Melbourne, the action and drama of the game thrill crowds who consider American football...