Word: concernedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That is now a concern at least as grave as inflation. Even with the protesting farmers making trouble in Washington these past few days, and the biggest snowstorm in five years diverting the capital's attention, the debate about U.S. strength and resolve is emerging on almost every level...
Most of those who express concern blame no single party or single President for the end of an era in which America was predominant. But it is now President Carter's job to deal with the situation. Washington's Senator Henry Jackson went down Pennsylvania Avenue a few days ago to talk with Carter and came away believing more than ever that the White House has little notion of how to orchestrate developments abroad. Illinois Senator Adlai Stevenson has called Carter "embarrassingly weak." Stevenson declared that he would like to see "the U.S. stand up to Russian imperialism...
...American response to "the new realities" of world power. That, however, is a difficult thought to assimilate in a nation so rich and capable. Worried about the national spirit, Author James Michener was in town a few days ago to urge further space exploration. He eloquently posed the longer concern that is now in our national dialogue: "There seem to be great tides which operate in the history of civilization, and nations are prudent if they estimate the force of those tides, their genesis and the extent to which they can be utilized. A nation which guesses wrong...
Although couched in humanitarian terms, most foreign appeals seemed motivated by concern for Pakistan's stability. Since the country was carved out of British India as a Muslim "land of the pure" 32 years ago, Pakistan has had three constitutions and suffered through three military coups, plus repeated doses of martial law. In July 1977 General Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, the army Chief of Staff, seized power after aggrieved mullahs and members of the middle class took to the streets to protest Bhutto's political corruption. Zia has moved cautiously to cleanse politics and restructure the nation...
...concern and support for Palestinian, Chilean, and African human rights is no less than our concern and support for the black man in the United States," Mohammed Abdul-Assiz, third secretary to the Libyan mission, said last night...