Word: concerns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...responded to the gathering clouds in the Middle East with an apparent equanimity in keeping with the air of unreality that enveloped the crisis. After all, the Arab-Israeli confrontation had for years been taken for granted as the normal state of affairs. But as tensions mounted and public concern increased in the U.S., the Administration acknowledged that an edgy situation had indeed been transformed into a potentially explosive one. When Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser announced that he was sealing off the Gulf of Aqaba against all Israeli vessels and other ships that might be carrying "strategic" cargo...
Coupled with the President's public expression of concern was a blunt, private warning delivered to United Arab Republic officials in Cairo that the U.S. considered the blockade "an act of aggression" and would consider using force to reassert what Johnson called "the right of free, innocent passage" for all ships. Britain strongly hinted that it would do the same...
...Another concern is whether the U.S. would have the resources to intervene or whether its forces might be stretched into a perilously thin line. But the U.S. did, after all, stifle a previous Middle East crisis by landing 15,000 men in Lebanon in 1958 with little strain. The Pentagon maintains that it could do the same today-Viet Nam notwithstanding -by flying troops in from Western European bases...
...midst of a $130 million expansion program, Oklahoma expects to grow from 15,500 to 25,000 students by 1975. Thanks to Cross's concern for good student-administration relations, O.U. has been relatively free of campus disorder, except before the annual football game with archrival Texas...
...some extent, the taxpayer rebellion reflects a growing concern by parents, especially in urban areas, about the declining quality of public school education. Says Dr. Paul Miller, Cincinnati school superintendent: "People say that Johnny can't read anymore, or Mary can't spell, or kids aren't being taught arithmetic." Voting against bigger school budgets also represents one of the few direct ways that citizens can express their anger at a seemingly endless spiral of rising taxes. Basically, says Calvin Rossi, legislative representative of the California Teachers' Association, the voters "are not saying...