Word: concerning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such winds do not directly concern the pilots of conventional propeller planes, whose normal ceiling is in the quieter air below 20,000 ft. But the great new jetliners cruise most efficiently in the high, thin air above. Their crews and dispatchers need detailed, fresh information about the tremendous high-altitude winds that crisscross the middle latitudes. To meet their need, the Weather Bureau has announced plans for a new high-altitude forecasting service, hoped to have it in full operation in time for next month's start of jetliner service across...
...diagnostician's biggest concern is to distinguish an acutely inflamed diverticulum from cancer of the colon, and this was especially important in Dulles' case since he had had a 1¾-in. piece of cancerous tissue removed from the large bowel two years ago. The danger of recurrence was, of course, great. Fortunately, in most cases, X rays taken after a barium enema show a distinctive picture of one or the other. In Dulles' case there was a characteristic, unmistakable diverticulum...
...they must devote their time to a department. Under the present system, there can be no such thing as a full-time History and Lit man; the tutors are almost all quite young; there is a rapid turn-over; and senior professors, no matter how sincere their interest and concern for History and Lit, have too many departmental demands on their time to take even one or two tutees in the field. If History and Lit is to survive as a genuine synthetic disciplne, it must, Gilmore and Brower feel, have a system of permanent appointments...
THERE have been few headlines I about Boris Pasternak since the two days on which he 1) received and 2) declined the 1958 Nobel Prize for literature. The nature of Pasternak's achievement is one that does not lend itself to headlines, but is nevertheless of the deepest concern to journalism. Says TIME: "Pasternak has called his book's tremendous success the 'Zhivago miracle,' but the paradox of the Pasternak miracle is equally compelling. He is a stubborn man who is not really a martyr. He is an aggrieved man and yet not an avenger...
Slater (David Niven): "Now hold on a minute, old man. You shouldn't take advantage of this sweet Irish young thing. Her concern with protecting her virginity from your seductive advances is understandable (swallows pitcher of martinis...