Word: concerning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Urgently, President Eisenhower sought to head off a conflict. He fired off a personal message to Ben-Gurion expressing "my grave concern," warning him against any "forceful initiative . . . which would endanger the peace." The Administration kept congressional leaders informed of the fast-racing developments. Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson reminded a national TV audience that the U.S. was committed (by the 1950 tripartite pact with Britain and France) to fight any aggressor in the Middle East "if it is real aggression," but that the U.S. purpose was to "try to talk everybody into being reasonable." The State Department warned...
Wyoming: Ike leads. Main G.O.P. concern is complacency in a politically apathetic state...
...made it in front of the whole world. This was the first time in their history that the Soviet leaders had done this, and the implications of their act went far beyond Hungary. That was why the events in Hungary on this foggy October day were of such vital concern to the world...
Chicago's Patroness of Arts Ellen Borden Stevenson, ex-wife of the Democratic presidential candidate, announced that The Egghead and I (a collection of "essays, satirical verse and excerpts from my diaries concerning the 'egghead' in national affairs-a problem we all face") is now "canceled" and will not be published as previously vouchsafed (TIME, Aug. 20). Ellen had pestered many publishers to vent her polemic, but had failed to crash through with a manuscript. Muttered one Chicago literary agent: "She had a good title, and that was about it." Despite her provocative title, Ellen Borden Stevenson...
Jordan's main concern is to make sure the team is "up" for the visiting Red and Blue. It is always hard for a Harvard team to concentrate on an opponent when it knows that an undefeated Princeton eleven is waiting for it next week...