Word: hysterias
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kennedy went on to caution against exaggerating the importance of the crisis, and what he later called "war hysteria." Said he: "This is not the first abuse of Soviet power, nor will it be the last ... It is less than a year since the Vienna summit when President Carter kissed President Brezhnev on the cheek. We cannot afford a foreign policy based on the pangs of unrequited love." Kennedy cautioned against taking action in the Persian Gulf without the support of our allies. He warned against haste in adding new nuclear weaponry like the MX missile to the U.S. arsenal...
...unpaid workers (their paychecks were stopped after the Iowa debacle dried up his campaign contributions). Kennedy visited Maine for three days over the weekend, and will be back several times in the closing days. So will many members of his family. The campaign has acquired a touch of hysteria: some Maine Democrats tell of receiving as many as eight telephone calls from different Kennedy volunteers apparently working from overlapping voter lists without coordination...
...result of White House policy, "anti-Soviet hysteria is virtually raging in the U.S.," said Leonid Zamyatin, chief of the International Information Department of the Central Committee. Speaking on Soviet television last week, Zamyatin declared that America's "economic and political blackmail" of the U.S.S.R. stemmed from Carter's desperate bid for reelection. "In order to score points as a presidential candidate, Carter decided to distract American attention from domestic problems by creating international tensions," charged Zamyatin, who is one of President Leonid Brezhnev's chief foreign policy advisers...
...Carril method--if having all the blood vessels in your head stand out is a method--has taken Princeton to the NCAAs three times and to a .688 overall winning percentage. Besides hysteria, program-eating and white-shirt-wearing, the Carril style usually means incredibly tight defense, patient offense (read: mostly short players) and winning. Carril is not pretty...
When Dr. Gail Fullerton, president of San Jose State, said the "death knell" of the AIAW had been sounded because of the NCAA's decision, she expressed the potentially detrimental hysteria the vote could promote. By entering the women's athletics field, the NCAA finally has shown it must recognize women's sports as an established institution. If the AIAW works against the NCAA it will face the task of fighting a Goliath with barely the weaponry of David...