Word: concernedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tall, boyish, slim-featured and soft-spoken Fallows opens his explanation evoking the moral challenge that the Vietnam War presented students in the late '60s. Today, he says, "there is no single overriding concern which makes you dismiss all marginal concerns and trimming." But in the late '60s the war was such an overriding force. It was an "epochal test, and you didn't know how it was all going to finally turn out and whether for the next 39 or 40 years people would point back and say, 'Those people did not speak up when the test of time...
Doubles matches, which have been an area of concern throughout the season, proved a source of joy for the women in white yesterday...
...suburban Adam, hopelessly in love, tempted to make his passion public and thereby cross the threshold into the "new morality." Sally, for her part, reveals herself to be the bad Eve as the action progresses; essentially sinful, she demonstrates her greediness and her poison. Beneath her pious confessions of concern for the feelings and future of Ruth and her children, she is a sharp-nailed bitch with expensive and self-indulgent tastes, subtly pushing Jerry towards estrangement from his wife...
Despite Ford's gaffe and Carter's extensive talk about the need for "morality" in U.S. foreign policy (a concern with which pragmatic Europeans have little patience) the race is widely viewed as a personality contest between two competent, but certainly not dazzling, politicians who scarcely differ in their approach to key issues. Most Western and Japanese political leaders are softly cheering for Ford. His main attraction: being a known quantity, v. the relatively unknown Jimmy Carter. West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt makes it a point to note privately that Ford has "grown" into the presidency...
...they will make their assessments is impossible to determine-maddeningly so for the candidates and their image makers. But in contest after contest, it is plain that party affiliation and positions on all but a few emotional issues (abortion, busing, gun control) are of less concern to most voters than their general perception of the candidates' honesty and integrity. In races in which one candidate has been brushed by scandal-no matter how lightly-polls indicate an impending defeat, generally...