Word: hysterias
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Speaking at a dinner of the Harvard chapter of the Alpha Gamma Society, Mather stressed that many citizens are looking to Harvard to "uphold the tradition of academic freedom against the waves of hysteria sweeping the country...
...acted believing that the principle that one is innocent until proven guilty permeates both the legal and social fabric of our society. Nor did we lose sight of the current hysteria which has its effects upon legal endictments and prosecutions...
...millions of ring fans were suddenly seized with the idea that civilization itself was threatened by the "Black Man who wore the belt." Johnson, who was disconcertingly tough and disconcertingly outspoken, openly intimated that he was as good, or better than any man who ever lived, and the hysteria grew. Saloon orators cried that Li'l Arthur had a skull an inch thick and drank beer through a straw. What worse could be said...
Importance of Legislation. In July 1946 she rose in the House to argue in favor of the bill establishing the Atomic Energy Commission (which provided for civilian control of the atom). Her remarks were free of the hysteria which then (as now) beclouded the atomic-energy problem...
...Newsweek contributing editor and onetime (1934-46) New York Times editorial writer, resigned, though he had the backing of other director-stockholders.* Said Director Lawrence Fertig, World-Telegram and Sun economic analyst: "The Freeman became intemperate . . . It should have convinced by logic and reason, with less shrillness, less direct hysteria...