Word: concerning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...concern of University police at outdoor rallies is to prevent riots, Dean Watson explained, discussing possible meeting locations. He added that the constabulary has called the Memorial Hall delta perfect, because it gives them complete control of a meeting...
...Orthodox concern for sidecurls starts with Leviticus, 19:27: "Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard." The Talmud carefully enumerates the corners: two on each cheek, one on the chin. Yemenite Jews often shave their heads, but leave the sidecurls (peoth) untouched...
...weakening of the Commonwealth, which the U.S. would once have welcomed, was now a matter of grave U.S. concern. Who, for example, was now responsible for defense and order in the key strategic areas around the shores of the Indian Ocean? Burma had stepped from the Empire into chaos. Other lands might go the same way. Little to stop them was apparent last week in London...
...hours, the grave bulletins from Lord Moran had Canada on edge. "Mr. Mackenzie King's health," said one, "has suffered from the long strain of affairs." Another reported that Mr. King's blood circulation was "causing concern." Tension ended when newsmen got more facts. Mr. King had been ordered to stay in bed for a rest for three or four weeks. But he was sitting up for visitors, discussing conference details with members of the Canadian delegation and getting his acting prime minister, Louis St. Laurent, to come over and sit in at Downing Street...
...psychiatrist says conscience is often a doubtful asset, the clergyman ought to know what is meant and commend it, even though he may suggest sharpening up conscience so as not to imply non-concern for ethics. If a clergyman says men must recognize their sinfulness before salvation is possible, the psychiatrist ought to know what this means, even though cautioning against identification of the fact of sin with a sense of guilt...