Word: concerned
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
With fascination and with deep concern the U.S. watched Senate investigators unfolding an ever-spreading picture of corruption and abuse in the powerful International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Not since the investigation of the finagling tycoons of the '20s and '30s had so many serious questions been raised against men in a position to wield great influence on the U.S. economy...
...possibility of a move for a federal "right-to-work law," or of new and strong support for the sort of right-to-work laws, banning the union shop, that are already on the books in 18 states and are pending in others (e.g., Delaware and Illinois). Their concern was not without cause. Clearly, there was a growing opinion in the U.S. that, regardless of the good intentions of most union leaders, some sort of machinery ought to be set up to check and balance the power of big labor...
...Committee has sent copies of a letter expressing its "deep concern" over the matter to a number of influential Congressmen...
...primarily intellectual, not aesthetic. Contrary to most living American writers, he has a great deal to say and a large number of highly original ideas. His writing is voluminous, averaging a book a year, and hence usually gives the impression of haste, but this is vindicated by his great concern with honesty in the relation of his materials...
...mission to be learning the truths of this strange new sect to determine its place in his own life. His initial reaction is, "If that's your religion, I say to hell with it." He thinks Christianity has a "fascinated obsession with wickedness" and, with a truly moral concern, thinks Christianity an excuse for letting people sin all their lives but still enter Heaven by last-minute repentance...