Word: concerned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eventually hope to be admitted into the United Nations. The speech avoided all the usual attacks on "American imperialism." A few days later the same commissar visited neighboring Tsinghua University, a Chinese government institution, and made the same professions of Communist respectability. The fact that his first concern had been for American-endowed Yenching was not lost on the courtesy-sensitive Chinese...
...plan for federal health insurance will be opposed by the American Association of Medicine, the two professors said. The AMA's chief concern is that the federal government will be unable to administer state medicine properly. This charge is unwarranted, said Aycock, since the government has succeeded in administering the public health program efficiently thus...
...other extraordinary scene is laid in a Franciscan monastery where three Army chaplains--Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish--seek refuge. War has passed by the monks, leaving them in their unreal tranquillity with no concern greater than the aim of converting the Protestant and the Jew. The monks are oblivious to the Catholic chaplain's attempts to reason with them; he begs them to accept the fact that the two "heathen" are just as religious in their own way--but the monks can only sit fasting in horrified silence...
...have swallowed its tail. Called the X-4, it is a batshaped little (20 ft. long) craft with two jet engines and broad, backswept wings (see cut). No entry in the supersonic sweepstakes, the X-4 was designed in the belief that subsonic speeds will still be the practical concern of aviation for many years. It will be used for research at speeds of about 650 m.p.h...
...Hospital for Mental Diseases (Byberry): there were 6,100 patients, almost 80% more than the planned capacity of 3,400. "I was reminded of the pictures of the Nazi concentration camps at Belsen and Buchenwald ... I entered buildings swarming with naked humans herded like cattle and treated with less concern ... I saw hundreds of patients living under leaking roofs, surrounded by moldy, decaying walls, and sprawling on rotting floor for want of seats or benches...