Word: concerns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Parliament Building he stood, arms akimbo, as he gave straightforward answers to newsmen: "I have never compared Allied soldiers with each other. But there were none better than the Canadians." He shied from direct comment on joint U.S.-Canadian defense planning: "You as well as ourselves have a lively concern for the territorial integrity of North America. You wouldn't sit back and see Florida taken any more than we would see one of your provinces taken...
Sirs: I would very much like to continue the discussion which I started under your heading of "Third-Class Country?" because I feel it is one of vital concern to the future of this land of ours. I want to make it clear to those people who thought I was criticizing our Army for its behavior that I emphatically was not. I was criticizing us, me, the people who raised the men in the Army and made them what they are. The Army turned out to be the greatest, and I hope the last, fighting force the world has ever...
Morgan had tried to present a "sober inventory" of the situation. "The statements now widely quoted [made during a chatty question-and-answer period] were qualified by other remarks that indicated his sympathy and concern for European Jews. . .. Both journalism and Jewry have . . . wildly interpreted and elaborated on [his] remarks...
Reaffirming the "national policy" announced 7$ years ago by his grandfather Meiji, who envisioned modern Japan as a popular parliamentary monarchy, Hirohito expressed concern for "the desires of the people" and his wish "always to share ... their joys and sorrows." It seemed like an effort to bring the ex-god closer to his ex-worshipers-quite in line with the Tokyo press's recent featuring of pictures of the Emperor and his Empress in civilian instead of ceremonial clothes, strolling or puttering in their garden with their children, more like people than divinities...
Over the lonely, intractable, life-giving land, the antagonist and provider, the primitive peasant labors achingly by day. At sundown, with his last strength, he feeds and beds the creatures for whom his concern must always be so much greater than for himself. Then night comes down-night which is even more mysterious than day. By the fire, in warmth and light, the man may rest. But he cannot forget the great darkness which is closing in. The forces of the earth, the impulses of growing vegetation, the flow of waters, the sweep of winds, the souls of animals...