Word: concernedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...workers from areas that Mao had visited during his revolutionary career, recalling the Chairman's kindness or inspirational qualities. One, by the "8341 unit" of the People's Liberation Army, charged with sentry duty at Mao's Peking residence, Forbidden City, stressed his abstemious habits and concern for the masses. Mao, the soldiers noted, worked "at all hours," frequently "ignoring calls to meals" and seldom resting, even on holidays and festivals. His shirts, shoes, blankets and sheets were said to be "worn thin from many years of use"; Mao refused to have his quarters refurbished...
Modern Southern politicians are fond of describing themselves as being "people-oriented," and they undertake elaborate projects to dramatize their concern for the common man. As a Congressman, Pryor worked anonymously in nursing homes for several weeks and later made public his findings about how old people were being mistreated. Campaigning successfully for the U.S. Senate in 1970, Florida Democrat Lawton Chiles walked a circuitous 1,003 well-publicized miles from Pensacola to Miami, chatting every step of the way with prospective voters about their problems. Last year, while running for Governor, Mississippi's Cliff Finch caught attention by spending...
...rally this year at Indian River High School in Chesapeake, Va., all the blacks sat on one side of the gym while the whites sat on the other Says Dorothy Polk of Charlotte, N.C.: "Black children tend not to join in as much, and this is a matter of concern...
...asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it's because we are still able to recognize one." Most Southern writers shared her stated literary purpose: "To observe our fierce and fading manners in the light of an ultimate concern...
REUBIN ASKEW, 48, Governor of Florida: The South is going to be very much assimilated in the national mainstream, and the issues that concern the country generally are going to concern the South. People from the South will be accepted politically with much less suspicion and reluctance...