Word: concerned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days the United Nations turned a blueprint into a going concern. Fifty-one nations, spanning the gamut of race, color, language and tradition, had to concur. They did-with ultimate unanimity. How long and with what travail would it have taken Congress to complete a comparable task...
...Their concern showed only in a pathetic anxiousness to plan for the future of those at home: "My insurance policy is in my bag that was in the small tent at Columbia. . . . Any personal property that I have at home I will give...
...Britain's difficulties in returning to normal economic intercourse are of direct concern to us.... If the loan is approved, we can look ahead ... to a general reduction of tariffs ... a loosening of the grip of cartels and combines on world commerce...
...main concern was with pain. . . . During [parts of] the operation it filled my whole mind. There was literally no room for anything else . . . one's emotional reaction to pain ... is partly a fear of more pain to come, of its continuing or getting worse...
...judgments on the countless bitter controversies which studded the Pacific war (Was the cost of Tarawa inevitable? Was it necessary to conquer Iwo?), he is determinedly fair. As a historian, his concern is more with events themselves than with the exploits of individual heroes. But he has included his estimates of the men who bossed the top Pacific commands: Nimitz, Spruance, Mitscher, Halsey. He has also included some of the best of the old Pacific war sagas. One of them: 18 Lightnings racing out from Guadalcanal's Henderson Field to bushwhack Admiral Yamamoto in the air over Jap-held...