Word: manias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...standards, the President's program for federal home building is pitifully inadequate. But even this pittance may be denied by a Congress in which economy has approached a mania. The President can save his program if he is willing to bring his party back into line. Better, he can make low cost federal housing a reality by bringing the levels of federal building up to those of the 1949 bill...
...York's Protestants are still badly handicapped in making demands by the lack of unity among denominations. ¶ Writing in the British weekly Spectator, the Rev. Michael Gedge found the concern of Anglican bishops for clerical job security excessive. Said Anglican Gedge: "Obsessed by the national mania for security in all jobs, troubled by the very natural difficulty of maintaining a wife and family on the lowest of professional wages . . . bishops are apt to insist that a house, a stipend of ?550, dilapidations paid by the parish, and perhaps a few other extras, are the absolute minimum [for undertaking...
Last week, for the first time, the government took official note of the rumors. A presidential palace representative quietly asked the morning newspaper Clarin to publish a story reporting that "in the U.S. also there exists a mania for attributing bad health to [President] Eisenhower." The story pointed out that in both the U.S. and Great Britain there are constant rumors that Eisenhower and Churchill are sick, but these should be dismissed as the inventions of political enemies...
...Increase Mather's conscience worked slowly, it at least worked surely. All through the summer, with the witchcraft mania reaching new heights, his doubts began to grow. The earliest sign of his increasing distrust of the trial procedures came in the middle of June when, with several other ministers, he responded to a request for advice from the judges. The group of ministers suggested that the courts evaluate carefully the so-called "spectral evidence"--that given by the afflicted girls of Salem; no one was quite ready yet to dispute directly the testimony of the girls, but their conduct...
...witchcraft hysteria. Several weeks later, the court which had tried the Salem cases adjourned, never to sit again. No more executions took place in the colony of Massachusetts; the following spring, Governor Phips pardoned 150 people who had been imprisoned on witchcraft charges. The fury of the mania subsided as quickly as it had come, when Puritan good sense re-asserted itself. Soon the witchcraft trials were but an ugly memory, though Puritanism has never lost the stigma which the witch-hunts placed...