Word: concerned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...closing, the President stressed that his postwar concern was to provide jobs, that that, very simply, was the issue. But, said he, there are three main tasks ahead: 1) winning a speedy victory; 2) setting up international machinery to keep the peace; 3) reconversion. Once before, almost a generation ago, the nation had faced the same tasks. They were botched by a Republican administration. With obvious relish, Candidate Roosevelt rolled out the letters and spelled the word: "Botched . . . botched by a Republican administration...
...they can scarcely fail to score. Expenses incidental to publication-tunewriting, arranging, etc.-will, of course, cost a small amount, which must be sent in advance. The sucker sends the money, and is gratified to receive 20 printed copies of his song. He next hears from an apparently different concern (the same shark using a different address), expressing great interest in his published song and suggesting that all it needs is a recording, by an unfamiliar but impressively named orchestra. This can be done for a small...
...concern for Negroes, Editor Bucke will add an equal concern for Jews. As a pastor of Hyde Park, Mass.'s Methodist Church (Hyde Park, nearby Dorchester and Mattapan have 60,000 Jews), he has worked hard in their Good Neighbor Association to promote racial and religious goodwill. His theory: "John Smith must meet Jacob Epstein and get to know him as a human being." He put his theory into practice by taking Protestant young people to a synagogue service. On his first day at the Herald, Editor Bucke had on his desk a huge bouquet from Mattapan...
...hollow. They had not been able to tell whether bad lighting or deep fatigue was responsible. They had noted that in pictures shot in Hawaiian sunshine, and again, beneath a cruiser's guns at Bremerton, he seemed healthier, more alert, though thinner of face. Therefore, with curiosity and concern, they filed in for the first post-Pacific press conference...
Thus far the Council's prime concern has been with petitions for the building of new churches. It does not often turn them down...