Word: hysterias
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...possible. Subtle suggestions of a need for "national unity" in the "crisis of civilization," which are now being employed in an apparent attempt to present America with a third term fait accompli, must be rejected. And in the meantime, those whose daily prayer it is that the war hysteria will not grow to more alarming proportions, will rejoice that a man of demonstrated ability and extraordinary political courage has ranged the guns of his oratory on the side of a calm, intelligent, logical analysis of the world situation...
...heroism of the men who fought is all the more tragic because it grew out of such fumbling, and achieved results so far below their hopes. The men who put their names to the petition are determined that blindness, hysteria, and selfishness shall not dominate our thinking again...
Hitting at the belief of many college students that "America was carried into the last war chiefly by the machinations of selfish business men and the hysteria of a superficial emotion," O'Brien said, "The way to secure peace and make it a lasting peace is to face frankly and to discuss freely disagreeable and tragic realities...
...greatest problem today is to prevent the mass hysteria that may possibly envelop us if certain of our leaders continue to keep pushing us seemingly ever closer to conflict...
...Manhattan Playwright Sherwood said: "There's a frightful conspiracy of silence that is turning Washington into an orgy of unreality. . . . It is a 'peace hysteria' clouding all attempts at intelligent thought about the war. Congress is one mass of Chamberlains. The United States is in exactly the same ostrich-escapism as England up to the insanity of Munich...