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  1. Persecution of minority political-opposition
  2. or socially nonconformist groups without any
  3. regard for their guilt or innocence.
  4. Witch-hunts are often accompanied by a degree
  5. of public hysteria; for example, the McCarthy
  6. anticommunist hearings during the 1950s in
  7. the USA.
  8.