Word: concerning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...obvious reason why the Russians had trumped up the Berlin crisis was because EGA was already a going concern. Last week EGA Administrator Paul Hoffman left for Paris. His mission was to see that EGA worked better still...
...staffers. Stanco said that he could see a pump working on the cesspool but he could not pursue his investigation further because the Russians would not let him inside the house. "You have your laws," said a courteous comrade, "and we have ours. Your American laws do not concern us. We do not need you here. You look after your people and we will look after ours." Sanitary facilities, he added, were "adequate...
...nods knowingly at folklore stories of people getting rid of eyelid styes by rubbing them with wedding rings. He checked 158 patients, found that 92% of those with styes and 80% of those with tarsal cysts (tumors of the eyelid) had "an exceptional interest in birth." Just why such concern should affect eyelids, .Dr. Inman is not sure. But he reasons that "serious chronic inflammations in the body generally might be beneficially influenced by systematic psychoanalysis...
...correspondent whose murder in Greece (TIME, May 24, July 5) is still unsolved. Next he attacked Newsweek (Folk's former employer), CBS and the press in general for not doing enough to clear up the crime. Perhaps he was trying to ingratiate himself with the newsmen by showing concern for their rights; more probably he was chiding them. In any case, he made the correspondents angry. Wrote Britain's discerning Rebecca West: ". . . Never have I seen ... such a miracle of tactlessness...
...Biennial has been a going concern since 1895, though Mussolini cramped its style by barring such "decadents" as Picasso. Last week there was a whole section devoted just to Picasso. Even Mussolini had not been able to bar Picasso's influence; whatever the newest school of Italian painters, who call themselves the "Secessionists," may have seceded from, it was not from the pervasive School of Paris...