Word: concerning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nation's eyes were on the coast of France: what happened in the poppy fields and in the ancient towns of Normandy was the first concern of all, by night & day. But the people's look at the war went farther, far beyond Normandy. For months the U.S., as a nation of tablecloth strategists, had been preoccupied with the coming of Dday. But as soon as it had happened, "Second Front" at once became as archaic a phrase as "defense bonds." For the invasion of France made not a Second but a Seventh Front...
...worked hard at home and abroad-most notably as MacArthur's technical adviser in the Philippines. He had kept his eye on his number, acquired as solid a military background as a U.S. officer could get. He had diligently cultivated his chief virtues of smartness, judgment, a concern for fine detail and a marked ability to make people work...
...look at it. ... The follows wounded at the front, perhaps lying for hours before help reaches them, are the ones who especially need a chaplain. There is nothing more terrifying than the feeling of lying alone, lost and helpless. Those are the men whom I have made my particular concern...
...Germany, married a U.S. girl in 1903, taught briefly at Harvard before he went to Yale. He wrote his first scientific work at about the same time that he published his first book of verse (Songs of Love and Sorrow). His first studies were of beetles and bees, concerning which he made some significant discoveries (e.g., that drones develop from unfertilized eggs). He also made revealing investigations of the digestion of cockroaches. He has written authoritatively on philosophy and the Russian Revolution, has long been president of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. But for some 40 years spiders...
...Country Club. Tooey Spaatz is one of a little group of officers who kept the tiny Army Air Corps a going concern in the U.S. after World War I. The rest of the Army might snicker about "the Flying Country Club" and its publicity tricks, but the airmen kept right...