Word: concerns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more than a week National Airlines' planes were grounded; their 145 pilots and co-pilots were out on strike. Members of the A.F.L. Air Lines Pilots Association, they had walked out because of "concern over air safety" after A.F.L. mechanics and office workers had struck for more pay, and because of "notoriously poor pilot-management relations...
...experience of the war," Dr. Oppenheimer wrote " . . . has left us with a legacy of concern. . . . Nowhere is this troubled sense of responsibility more acute . . . than among those who participated in the development of atomic energy for military purposes. . . . The physics which played the decisive part in the development of the atomic bomb came straight out of our laboratories and our journals. . . . In some sort of crude sense which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose...
...also landed the bill for its section which specifies that states must provide their own education up to capacity if they are to remain eligible for federal aid. "This requires a substantial effort on the part of each state, and a reasonable concern for the education of all its children, regardless of race or color...
...defense asked witness Lieut. Colonel Austin J. Montgomery how he could be sure the word Wada used was "concern." Said lean, bitter Survivor Montgomery: "I consider myself pretty much of an authority on Mr. Wada's English expressions. We called them Waddisms." The court also got superlative evidence of the American soldier's ability to wisecrack. Through parched lips, American prisoners had muttered: "Wada, Wada everywhere, and not a drop to drink...
Most combat veterans will probably find Peter's constant concern with his war-fractured sensitivity-and his glib articulateness about it-only annoying. And all veterans will look in vain for anything like real understanding of their difficulties and disappointments since victory...