Word: concerned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...goes. Ten State Department employees have been discharged as "bad security risks." The Department's press office said, "This does not necessarily concern the loyalty of the individuals, but may refer to his discretion or the company he keeps." A few days later, a high U. S. court rules against proceeding with a trial of the score of Americans indicted during the war as pre-fascist seditionists, claiming it would be a travesty on justice...
...loved or hated because it is a citadel of political liberty . . . but according as it seems to be a going concern, measured by its ability and willingness to contribute from its own comfortable fat to strengthen Europe's thin and shivering frame...
Chevigny expects to be "a going concern" as a radio writer "at least until television takes over." His skill is backed by a cold nose for the main chance: he sold NBC on his Plays by Ear, partly by the shrewd hint that a blind writer for an invisible medium makes not only good sense but also good publicity copy...
...problem of getting the news of Russia-and getting it out of Russia-is, as you know, a major concern of the U.S. and the world press. A corollary of this problem, the Soviet press itself, is the subject of a recent report by Craig Thompson, now home from a two-year tour of duty for TIME & LIFE in Moscow. The following excerpt from it may interest...
...likely to be a heavy social schedule--for collegiate energy. If the past two terms have been characterized by an "unhealthy emphasis" on grades, the present term may well produce an even higher level of scholastic absorption. In an ordinary term this pre-occupation might be a matter for concern on the part of the administration. But the Summer Term of 1947 is not and has never been represented as an ordinary term. It is the last gasp of the war time acceleration, adapted to an unusual situation. And the student body is also of an unusual calibre...