Word: concerning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with great concern that I received the news of the unfortunate incident. My main regard is not for the loss of the six young Marines, sympathetic as I may be, but I am afraid the accident may precipitate another really great tragedy-a change in the Marine Corps' basic training methods. The Corps doesn't just teach a man how to fight, it makes a fighter out of him. I only hope that thoughtless political pressure will not cause the Marines to change certain traditional training techniques, which are instrumental in molding the fighting Marine who emerges from...
Barkley's big chance for the presidential nomination came in Chicago in 1952, but he was 74, and there was great concern about his health. He tried to overcome that handicap. "If I felt any better," he said, "I'd send for a psychiatrist, because I'd know it was mental." When union-labor leaders turned him down in a dramatic hotel room conference, Barkley withdrew, deeply hurt. Two days later he went before the convention to make one of his best speeches and receive a hero's farewell. Harry Truman still believes, according...
Though his emotions are under firmer control, he is painfully sensitive and can feel an intense sadness. If he is hard on others, he is even harder on himself. He spends more time than ever in front of the mirror, and there can be "agonizing concern if the reflected image proves too disappointing." Thirteen is a worrier. "He says himself that he 'worries about most everything,' or that he worries that he is going to worry...
...concern of American Jews became rehabilitation or support, or of eking out a living in a new land. A University was still a "wonderful idea, but this is an emergency...
...East and West. He feels that the two world war served only as preparatory grounds-wells, each of which subsided when people returned to the comfort of their richesse. The Russian threat, however, seems destined to continue throughout our lifetimes, and, he says, has been the cause of real concern with serious questions of existence...