Word: hysterias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heroism of the men who fought is all the more tragic because it grew out of such fumbling, and achieved results so far below their hopes. The men who put their names to the petition are determined that blindness, hysteria, and selfishness shall not dominate our thinking again...
Hitting at the belief of many college students that "America was carried into the last war chiefly by the machinations of selfish business men and the hysteria of a superficial emotion," O'Brien said, "The way to secure peace and make it a lasting peace is to face frankly and to discuss freely disagreeable and tragic realities...
...greatest problem today is to prevent the mass hysteria that may possibly envelop us if certain of our leaders continue to keep pushing us seemingly ever closer to conflict...
...Manhattan Playwright Sherwood said: "There's a frightful conspiracy of silence that is turning Washington into an orgy of unreality. . . . It is a 'peace hysteria' clouding all attempts at intelligent thought about the war. Congress is one mass of Chamberlains. The United States is in exactly the same ostrich-escapism as England up to the insanity of Munich...
...Student Union said that the instructors were trying to "whip up a blind war hysteria in the line followed by the professors in 1916-17." Most particularly was the denunciation aimed at Cram...