Word: concernedly
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Virtually Ungovernable. When the Communists took over in 1949, China could hardly have been in worse condition. It was in the midst of a great historic drama-and the U.S. watched it with deep concern, for China has always held a unique place in the American imagination. After two millenniums of maintaining an exquisitely sophisticated culture in relative isolation from the world, China was invaded by the West-by its traders, missionaries, soldiers and technicians. First under Sun Yatsen, whose revolution overthrew the Manchu empire, then under Chiang Kaishek, new leaders struggled to rescue the Chinese spirit from repeated foreign...
...rigors of revolution to test them as he had been tested, were getting soft. The ideological split with the Soviet Union was by now forbiddingly wide, and Mao feared that China would eventually follow the Soviet example: a revolution that had been sold out, turning bourgeois in its concern for consumer goods and comforts rather than self-sacrifice and struggle. His antidote, the prescription of an aging revolutionary romantic, was the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Like the Great Leap, it was a quixotic undertaking, one that was intended not only to rid him of rivals like Liu and break...
...varsity cross country team sounded optimistic at yesterday's practice about its chances to beat Penn Friday in New York, but there is some of the usual concern about injuries...
...Another real area of concern is the question of admissions." Pusey said, A committee chaired by Chase N. Peterson 52, dean of Admissions and Financial Aid, is studying this question. The committee is not so much trying to decide the ratio between male and female undergraduates as to consider "what would be the effect on the admissions program and the financial aid program of Harvard," Pusey said...
Hanify's letter on behalf of the HUC asked suspension of classes on October 15 to aid students' expression of "conscientious concern" about the war, a subject of "paramount concern to all the members of the University community...