Word: concerns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eulogies were not exactly spontaneous. They came as a defensive reaction to reports leaked by disgruntled Democratic liberals that the 75-year-old Speaker was "losing touch" with his rank and file. Columnist Jack Anderson, Drew Pearson's alter ego, claimed that McCormack's major legislative concern was "the remodeling of the Capitol building's west front." A Washington Post editorial, concluding that McCormack no longer brings to the speakership the "energy, shrewdness and fighting capacity that it requires," urged that he "step down gracefully...
Almost as palpable as the grey, bone-chilling rain that gusted over Taiwan last week was the pervasive mood of concern about the furious happenings only 100 miles across the strait. In downtown Taipei, Chinese huddled in raincoats and overcoats discussing the latest news out of Red China. Business men at the smart Golden Dragon restaurant traded reports over lunch. In thousands of homes, mainland exiles tuned in their radios and television sets and pored through newspapers for the latest hints of hope. The Nationalist Chinese on Taiwan are sharing in Red China's convulsions as only those...
Often, because of guilt feelings in the mother who cannot suffer from hemophilia but has transmitted it to her son,* a young bleeder is maternally overprotected. The father feels left out and takes little interest in the boy. Even legitimate parental concern for a hemophiliac son's safety can transmit unnecessarily restrictive fears to him. The reaction in either case, says Dr. Agle, can be self-destructive. In an effort to deny his fears, the hemophiliac boy may take what are, for him, absurd risks by jumping from trees, riding motorcycles and even picking fist fights...
...stiff letter of resignation to Wilson, Bullitt expressed his concern that "our government has consented now to deliver the suffering peoples of the world to new oppressions, subsections and dismemberments." To illustrate his conviction, he began organizing a book about Wilson, Lenin, Clemenceau, Orlando and Lloyd George...
...first novel and despite all its defects one cannot help admiring a college girl for sitting down and writing a novel and that we certainly hope she will try again. But it isn't really admirable to write a novel devoid of plot, characterization, style, significance, and concern. It's just a colossal lot of nerve...