Word: concernedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...result, home-rule opponents had little trouble defeating the bill in the House. They traded on fears that the Negro majority would dominate the city elections and consequently the city government. Or, they raised unfounded doubts that a locally elected mayor and council would show sufficient concern in maintaining the proper character of Washington as The Federal City with all its buildings, employees, and interests...
Such were the doctrines that launched the original policy. Since then Moscow and Peking have fallen out to the point where there is possible need for concern that their polemics might degenerate into unplanned violence. And China is torn bitterly as between itself. And no one knows whether North Vietnam has its primary association with Moscow or China much less with what factions in China. And there is agreement by all except the custodians of the official truth in Washington that the National Liberation Front in South Vietnam has strong indigenous roots that tap both national ardor and ancient injustice...
Near by in Geneva's Palais des Nations, where Soviet and American disarmament negotiators have been trying for six years to forge a nuclear non-proliferation pact, European concern was focused on the possibility that such a treaty could forever foreclose the Continent's option of becoming an equal thermonuclear power. Over those specific negotiations, with which Humphrey was immediately concerned, hung the intertwined questions of Viet Nam and East-West rapprochement. Through it all, the Vice President-plainly relishing his liberation from the domestic creamed-chicken circuit-enjoyed more grand ceremony and grand cru wine than could...
...L.B.J. aide pressured him to move immediately into Kennedy's oval office from his vice-presidential suite in the Old Executive Office Building because it would "give the people confidence," Johnson barked back: "People will get confidence if we do our job properly. Stop this. Our first concern is Mrs. Kennedy and the family." When an anxious assistant tried to talk Johnson into riding in a car instead of endangering himself by walking in the funeral procession, he snapped: "You damned bastards are trying to take over. If I listen to you, I'll be led to stupid...
...humanism. Humanistic it was, but its perspective was that of another time. More pertinent than what the encyclical said was what it did not say; lacking balance, it seems unlikely to supplant the judicious pronouncements of Paul's predecessor as a living statement of the church's concern for world justice...