Word: concerning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...however much men might have been concerned with the distant future, the plain problem of the immediate present was victory. The greatest virtue of the Moscow Conference was that its first purpose was to guarantee victory. It had girded with iron the great possible weakness of the Allies. Now, engrossed in direct military cooperation, the United Nations need not concern themselves about a wartime rift in their alliance...
...battles for Italy are being fought in Italy. In the U.S., Roman Catholics are concerned about the U.S. occupation of a Catholic country. Italian and many U.S. Protestants are concerned about this Roman Catholic concern...
...Said Britain's Bishop of London, Dr. Geoffrey Francis Fisher: "There is concern about the landslide in sexual morality...
This mounting chorus of concern over wartime moral conditions in Britain was swelled last week by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York. In a stern joint statement they said: "Since the outbreak of the war there has been a large increase in venereal disease [120%], both among the civilian population and ... in the forces. This brings ruin and unhappiness to thousands of homes and has become a grave danger to the health of the nation...
...when Francisco was six years old the Spanish Navy sailed out on its brave, hopeless campaign against the upstart Yanqui tinpots and presently ceased to be a going concern. Having no warships to speak of, the Spanish Government decided to shut the Naval Academy down; 14-year-old Francisco went instead to the military academy in the Alcazar of Toledo. If he had followed his planned career he might have been a captain or admiral by 1936, when rebel naval officers were heaved over the sides of their warships by Loyalist crews...