Word: hysterias
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There is no record of colonial witch-burning in the U. S. Even in the Massachusetts witch hysteria of 1692, of the 19 put to death, 18 were hanged, one was pressed to death, none were burned...
...shoddy situations to carry the power. The last scene, for carry the power. The last scene, for example, where Elizabeth decides that England means more to her than the life of her lover has real dramatic strength and poignancy. But the drama dwindles off into labored phrases and district hysteria; not the kind of situation one usually associates with Elizabethan gestures...
...minority of one. Congressman John E. Nelson of Maine, disagreed with the Red picture of his colleagues, decried the "hysteria" over Communism, declared: ''Our best defense against the red shirt of the Communist and the black shirt of the Fascist is the blue shirt of the American workingman...
...Communistic principles or whether he shuns them as sheer anathema, such a study of history reveals that revolutionary propaganda thrives under oppression. The recommendations of the Fish Report once put into execution might not only supply food and nourishment to hundreds of Red publications, but also produce an hysteria throughout the country on rather dubious premises. To arouse the expectation of economic and social unrest would do little to assure business stability...
Campaigners against Cancer try to avoid scaring the public about Cancer. They feel there is already enough hysteria on the subject. Clarence Cook Little, who since his resignation as University of Michigan's president directs both the Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory (heredity & cancer) at Bar Harbor, Me., and the American Society for the Control of Cancer, remarks in Cancer: "By the publication of quack cancer 'cures' and the premature, unintelligent and overenthusiastic publicity on many 'new treatments' the press has built up unfounded hopes to be followed by a bad mental reaction in thousands...