Word: hysterias
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...possibility of a hearing which is almost as unpleasant. Justice Douglas' dissent, which predicted a vertitable spy system growing up in the New York school system, is not so alarmist as it might appear at first reading, for if current affairs serve to magnify the public's present Red hysteria, accusations can be expected to increase by geometric progression...
...intern marked the girl's chart "Possible 100% HY" (hysteria), noted "no abnormal reflexes, no response to painful stimuli," summoned an attendant to carry her to a sixth-floor ward...
Upstairs, Resident Dr. Paul Crowley began working up her case in earnest. "Looks like catatonic schiz to me," he said. "But until she comes to and we have a psychiatrist in-who knows? It could be a guilt-complex hysteria." He fed the girl emetic soap water, which she promptly vomited up. The second time, she came to, pleading, "Not again. Please, not again." Dr. Crowley entered her name on the roster of patients to be seen by a psychiatrist on Monday...
...Boston, Rappaport contended, corruption has not been the basic issue. "Problems of the city lie far deeper than corrupt administration but, like communism, people have surrounded corruption with a sort of hysteria," he said...
...hysteria has had a stiffing effect on college teaching, Biddle reports. Only two college presidents have stood firm on the issue of communist teachers on the faculty, he holds, and they are President Conant and former University of Chicago head Robert M. Hutchins...