Word: hysterias
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...international community should be investing, not disinvesting, in South Africa. Investors can provide the black population with a better living standard and internal leverage for political change. Many other countries are greater offenders of their citizens' human rights. The anti-South Africa hysteria is absurdly disproportionate to our sins. Robert Wells Johannesburg...
Toleration does not, however, translate into esteem, though there seems to be much less hysteria about Moon now than there was in the 1970s. California Cult Foe Lowell D. Streiker thinks Moon's imprisonment may strengthen the loyalties of disciples, "but it doesn't help in recruitment or in image building." An even stronger view is taken by Anson Shupe of the University of Texas at Arlington, an expert on the movement. He sees a loss of momentum in the Moon cult, viewing it as an organization in disarray, pouring "millions of dollars down the drain" and unable to hold...
...commented on the level of hysteria surrounding the Bulldogs, and tried to show how different Duluth's attitude toward college hockey was compared with Cambridge...
...alliance, and in 1950 called General George Marshall "a living lie" and "a front man for traitors." As head of the Internal Security Subcommittee, he conducted a noisy investigation of suspected Communists in the teaching profession. He saw the influence he had gained during the years of anti-Red hysteria begin to ebb with McCarthy's censure in 1954 and chose not to run for a third full term...
...been very anxious because it's an important decision--it's been just hysteria trying to find out how to play the system," said John A. Homer...