Word: concerns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pittsburgh, Senator Burton Kendall Wheeler, leader of the isolationist bloc in Congress, denying that he thought the President "would deliberately lead this nation into . . . war," hammered away at the isolationist theory that Britain is done for. "The American people ... do not want to buy a bankrupt concern. ... If the British Isles . . . are our first line of defense, wouldn't it be sensible to bring about a peace that would save . . . the British fleet...
...with great concern the position in which Great Britain is placed, and should be sincerely afflicted were any disaster to deprive mankind of the benefit of such a bulwark against the torrent which has for some time been bearing down all before it." These words, from which Earle takes his title, were not uttered in 1941, but in 1803. Even more remarkable, they are not the words of a fervent interventionist, but one of America's most uncompromining pacifists--Thomas Jefferson...
...need not be concern'd, in writing to me, about your bad Spelling; for, in my Opinion as our Alphabet now Stands, the bad Spelling, or what is call'd so, is generally the best, as conforming to the Sound of the Letters and of the Words. To give you an Instance: A Gentleman receiving a Letter, in which were these Words,-Not finding Brown at horn, I delivard your meseg to his yf. The Gentleman finding it bad Spelling, and therefore not very intelligible, called his Lady to help him read it. Between them they pick...
...State Department's concern for republican Iceland is not unnatural...
Said General Wesson last week: "About two months ago ... I expressed some concern about our ability to meet completion dates for these new (ordnance) plants. ... I would be most happy . . . if it were possible for me to say that this outlook has brightened. ... If anything, it has grown darker, due to large increases in naval and aircraft programs [which have] higher priorities. ... I am not decrying our priorities system. It is essential that we have such a system...