Word: hysterias
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...sentences of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg"-kept up a 24-hr.-a-day demonstration near the White House. In New York the Daily Worker filled its pages with shrill protests that "the Rosenbergs must live." Throughout Europe, Communists and fellow travelers pointed to the Rosenbergs as martyrs to "reactionary hysteria...
...London Times reporter in the U.S. was filing such obviously slanted pro-Stevenson copy that the paper's editors sent "corrective guidance" to its correspondent. Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard printed a dispatch from Laborite M.P. Woodrow Wyatt, headlined I TIP STEVENSON TO WIN, which said that "hysteria about Communism is making a dent in America's claim to call herself a democracy." On election eve, the London Daily Graphic's Frank Oliver cabled his paper: "I believe Governor Stevenson will...
...most ardent anti-McCarthyite, has asked the question: how much actual damage has been done by these subversives? It is natural to be troubled by the idea of foreign agents in one's government, but if the consequences have not been very serious one has no cause for hysteria. It is well, now and then, to apply the test of pragmatism to vexed ideological issues: an Everest of feathers may turn out to weigh only a few pounds...
...first, public health authorities were horrified at the thought of the problems they will have to face. Said one: "I shudder to think of next summer's mass hysteria among parents who know of gamma globulin." He foresaw all kinds of abuses: bootlegging in G.G., racketeering with worthless substitutes, faking measles to wangle a shot of G.G. in areas where it is not being given-for polio. This expert's solution: declare a national emergency, giving the Government a monopoly of blood and blood products; allot G.G. only to areas with the worst epidemics; let a public authority...
...Wermer doubted that the Government would have to step in so far. He was glad that the news had come out at the end of a polio season. "It gives us time to prepare," he said, "and time to think it over soberly without a background of emotion and hysteria." Dr. Wermer admitted that reserving G.G. for areas with proven epidemics means that the first children stricken in any region will be denied its benefits...