Word: paranoias
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crews also suffer from severe paranoia. Constantly aware of the Thresher and Scorpion disasters, they sometimes become obsessed by the danger of the crushing pressure of the sea around them; when that happens, submariners often prowl about the craft hunting for leaks in the 6-in.-thick steel hull. Crewmen also begin to worry inordinately about friends and relatives on shore. The Navy tries to soothe their fears with "familygrams"-radioed messages received when the sub surfaces. But that strategy sometimes backfires. One man learned halfway through a cruise that his six-year-old son had been seriously injured...
...University reacted to the decision with a bit of panic and paranoia, since the University has not yet decided whether to cooperate with the power company. The idea of selling the land to Con Ed caused considerable controversy both in the University and around it, since the building of the power project has been tied up in battles with environmentalists for the last ten years...
...saying "Me-thinks the President doth protest too much." But by inference, Hughes' book makes one thing perfectly clear: No man should be elected to the office who comes to it in advance, as Lyndon Johnson and Rich ard Nixon did, with a built-in case of mild paranoia or a galloping Sisyphus complex...
...perhaps symptomatic of the nation's gathering political paranoia that many felt a faint suspicion that Agnew was somehow being played with in the strategy of a bigger?and hidden ?power game. Some improbable "they"?the Democrats, enemies in the White House or whoever?were after...
Even the Butterfield explanation of the rationale for the President's clandestine taping?that it was purely for a historical record?was questioned by a former presidential aide, who had not been aware of the bugging. This aide insisted that it was Nixon's "paranoia about the press" that motivated his taping. Explained this official: "The President has had a bad press for a long time. He ordered the taps and bugs to keep his own record of what happened in his offices, to tell what he considered to be the true story." Yet it is not at all clear...