Word: concerning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite lavish sets and a horde of turbaned, five o'clock shadowed extras, "A Night in Casablanca" is a funny picture, but far below the capacities of the Brothers Marx. Its primary fault lies not in the plot, but that there is a plot at all, which, vaguely, concerns a group of post-war Nazis and their attempt to transfer stolen European loot to South America. Director Archie Mayo, evidently a man with a conscience, turns his three charges into fumbling sleuths, who, finally, get their man, if not their woman. Such concern over villains and their "just deserts' cuts...
Remember Bratislava. Slovakia's deviation from the national pattern was the first concern of the Communists and their veteran boss, Vice Premier Klement Gottwald (who was a good bet to be Czechoslovakia's next Premier). Pipe-puffing Comrade Gottwald started out by fighting Russia as an Austro-Hungarian sergeant major in World War I, has been fighting for Communism ever since. Like Yugoslavia's Tito he is a former metalworker, and like France's Thorez he sat out the war in Moscow. Like both, he knows how to deal with overly independent elements...
...which leads a man not to stand in front of a locomotive." Directing attention toward problems of manageable dimensions "like the monetary fund, the bank, the trade organization, and, if possible, the control of atomic energy," will be an achievement "which will modify many situations which now concern us, including--and I am now guessing--our relations with the Soviet Union," Acheson asserted...
...banquet press conference, the Undersecretary refused to comment on the possibilities of his succeeding Stettinius as American delegate to the United Nations. He expressed little concern with the current troubles with the Soviet Union but viewed our relations with that country as a task of long term but not insoluble difficulty. Disparaging the proposal to sever relations or use economic sanctions against Franco as one which would not accomplish what we wished to achieve, he termed Spain "a very difficult problem...
Registering two facets of student body concern with the state of learning in College, O'Donnell claimed that undergraduates generally had come to support the General Education plan along with the Administration's reasons for a temporary curtailment of the tutorial system, and reiterated his plea of the evening before for a student activities center as a war memorial...