Word: hysterias
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...read a condensation of Author Scully's hogwash on the so-called "flying saucers" in [another] magazine . . . I was thoroughly convinced at that time of the scientific unsoundness of his writing . . . Every person of intelligence should be indignant at the thought of anyone deliberately promoting national hysteria, based on the hallucinations of people who will swallow any fantasy thinly veiled in pseudo-scientific jargon...
...proposal appears meaningless in the light of the Selective Service regulation which requires a postponement of induction until the end of the academic term. The Council seems to have yielded to the hysteria of a few individuals in considering compulsory mid-term grades at this time...
...pamphlet, he traced the history of the Communist movement with the hope of substituting fact for hysteria. "The non-Communist world," he said "must remember that it can increase or reduce the potency of this mighty Soviet weapon. It must renounce panic because frightened people are not capable of making intelligent decisions...
...taken an oath to support the democratic Constitutions of both the nation and state. It is the height of absurdity to compare [as some of the objectors have done] an oath forswearing membership in a conspiratorial antidemocratic organization with an oath supporting the dictatorship of Hitler or Mussolini . . . Some hysteria-mongers to the contrary notwithstanding, this reviewer knows from personal experience that the faculty of the University of California is as free to teach and reach conclusions in any field of study as any faculty in the country...
...Billy Graham, agleam in a pistachio-colored suit and white shoes, called to warn him that the U.S. people are gripped by "a fear you could almost call hysteria" and suggested the President proclaim a national day of prayer and humiliation. Mildly, Harry Truman told Graham that the answers to today's problems were found in the Sermon on the Mount, particularly the Seventh Beatitude: "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God." Billy emerged pleased; but there would be no national day of humiliation...