Word: concerning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...greatest point of concern in Washington was what would develop in NATO. The British White Paper came on the day that General Lauris Norstad and his top aides were observing NATO's eighth anniversary, and the question that immediately presented itself was: Will the British decision start a chain reaction for reduction of forces among the other NATO allies, e.g., France and Italy? In the new distribution of power, there would be a new and different premium on the West German ground forces, whose General Hans Speidel has just taken over as Norstad's commander of allied land...
...death-defying leap. The acrobat says what he is going to do. The announcer says when he is going to do it. But when he actually does it, the audience gasps just the same. Similarly, the Pentagon gasped rather than shook at the news. As usual, the chief Washington concern was whether the British cut might snowball through other NATO nations. But in general there was an underlying approval that Britain had at last adjusted its military cost to its economic cloth...
...concern is crystallized in a proposed Constitutional amendment now before a House Judiciary sub-committee, headed by Rep. Emmanuel Celler. The amendment is put forward as an alternative to a joint resolution reported out by Celler's group last summer. The major differences between the two proposals involve the form of the measure--constitutional amendment or statute--and the body to determine the VicePresident's right to declare himself acting President--the Cabinet or the Congress...
...member of the Class of 1946, I read with some concern a newspaper story under a Boston dateline, which reported that a committee consisting of eight Harvard Alumni, and calling themselves the Harvard Veritas Committee, has launched a campaign to prevent Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer from delivering the first of eight William James lectures on Philosophy...
Williams outlined a number of other "areas of public service" which, he said, should remain "the primary concern of the states." Among these were education, public health and mental health...