Word: concerned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have in recent times seen the decline of the supposedly eternal gag type of humor, and its slow replacement by the situation comedy of Morgan and Fred Allen. The quiz shows and soap operas are wearing thin in their turn. When sponsors do realize that the American's concern with his personal inadequacies is not limited to "cathartics and mouth-washes," and turn their shame-on-you technique to exposing airpockets in his education, we can expect a flood of adult programs...
...unconcerned about what other people thought of us. ... That time is past. We shall be making decisions, within the U.N. and independently, that will have repercussions affecting the lives of ordinary people all over the globe. Our attitude and our actions-and rumors thereof-will be matters of concern everywhere...
...strović's family chapel at Split, but when he or they will get back there he doesn't know, since he is no Tito supporter. Since he reached the U.S. in January, Městrović has been teaching at Syracuse University. Surroundings do not much concern him; he can work anywhere, he says, even in prison (where the Pietà was started). His concentrated philosophy: "Without the past there cannot be a future...
...vital concern to all, along with keeping an undistorted view of foreign policy, is the issue of political freedom for Communists at home. To out law the Communist Party, denying its members freedom of political activity, would be to demonstrate the weaknesses the Communists charge us with. Until, to use the trite but indispensable phrase, a clear and present danger to our Nation can be shown, it is better to let Communists have their say; if our system is as sound as we believe, it can withstand any debate or criticism. Just as red-baiting is an admission of weakness...
President-Conant told the committee that the bill seemed to him to be "painstakingly detailed" insuring that federal aid will not mean federal "strings to local schools." He also voiced approval of the stipulation that, in order to receive federal funds, a state must show "reasonable concern for all its children, regardless of race or color...