Word: concerning
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About the TV show The Last Word [Aug. 5]: Is not the popularity of this show a kind of snobbishness in reverse? This excessive concern with grammar and its usage is on the level of whether one should wear this or that color, or use this or that fork, i.e., social insecurity. I have always said "I ain't." The only incorrection is to use the form in other persons: that is, you ain't. Dull people will always speak in a dull manner, whether it is correct...
...last week's proceedings were concerned, John McClellan announced that he would ask the Department of Justice to examine Hoffa's testimony for evidence of perjury. Courts have ruled that a sense of credibility must apply to "I do not recall," i.e., a major event in a man's life is not an incident lightly forgotten. Such an event might concern, say, the details of a $20,000 loan or the bugging of a grand jury room. Jimmy Hoffa's forgettery might turn out to be inconvenient after...
...vice president of the 15-million-man A.F.L.-C.I.O., remained utterly aloof from the tawdry discourse about Jimmy Hoffa and Johnny Dio going on in Washington. Instead, the U.A.W.'s Reuther chose to initiate a new public debate, not about labor corruption, but about economics. Aware of public concern about inflation, Reuther astutely proposed that the big three automobile makers cut prices on 1958 models by $100 or more below 1957 prices, whereupon his union would give "full consideration" to lower company earnings in preparing wage demands (TIME...
...course I am disappointed," the President told reporters at his news conference, "because these things that I talk about are not pet projects of my own. I have no particular personal reason other than that of a concern for all of the United States of America for wanting them passed, but that reason is governing and controlling...
...literary editor of the Chicago Tribune (1931-33), flung herself into sportive sex situations, moved on to Germany with her scholarly, New Deal-minded father, excitedly tried to date Hitler but later thought that he had "an acute castration complex," visited and much preferred Russia as "a definitely going concern,'' came back to the U.S. to write books, e.g., Through Embassy Eyes and Sowing the Wind, and to champion F.D.R.: "Any party that is violently anti-New Deal falls into the category of pro-Fascist ideology...