Word: paranoia
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...disappearance was owing to the energy crisis: "Nixon is burning the tapes for fuel since he has turned the White House thermostat down." Another found cinematic possibilities: "Spiro got them for John Wayne, who will make a film entitled Who Slew Dickey-Poo? It will be filmed in Paranoia." Yet another suggested that "Pat Gray threw the tapes away in his Christmas trash." Other explanations were tonsorial ("Haldeman made his new hairpiece out of synthetic materials made from shredded tapes"), recreational ("Bebe Rebozo made them into eight-track tapes and plays them on his yacht"), even sporting: "Nixon was watching...
...think there is something wrong with everyone who becomes a lawyer. There's some paranoia, some cowardice, some lack of courage or self-identification, some flaw in a person's contribution that makes him become a lawyer," said one radical San Francisco attorney...
...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...