Word: concerns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leaders of both parties, were defiant. They vowed not to give Powell a penny of back pay-ever. Many of those who opposed the original vote to exclude him were angry, convinced that it was the Court that had acted unconstitutionally in telling Congress what to do. There was concern that if the decision stuck, the Court would be free to intervene in other Congressional practices, such as the seniority system...
...this." Democratic National Committeeman J. Marshall Brown of Louisiana was so infuriated at the commission's plans that he "ordered" McGovern to stay out of his state and sent Democratic National Chairman Fred Harris a letter suggesting that he resign. Humphrey himself wrote to tell Brown that his concern was shared by others...
What keeps Jaramillo going, he feels, is the letters that his girl, Lydia Terrazas, writes almost daily. Frantic with concern for his safety, she writes him: "Artie, you have so much to come home to, please don't be foolish, come home to me." Jaramillo saves the letters in an old ammunition case, reads them as many as 25 times, then burns them because he knows he has more coming. They provide a link with the "real world." Like most G.I.s, Jaramillo also strings good-luck medals around his neck -including, in his case, one blessed by the Pope...
Russell Wayne Baker, L.H.D., columnist for the New York Times. However barbed the tip of his lance, it is sheathed by a profound concern for the human condition...
...phrase referred to the conflict of self-concern and social conscience, said the boy, whose name was Peter Pfeiffer. "I make movies; I rather enjoy the peaceful joy of framing the world in 16-mm. segments. I drive from place to place in my old Ford station wagon and attempt to capture the movements of people. This is the Coca-Cola of my life. But as I work I can feel large round eyes watching my every move. Hungry children have large round eyes, and there are lots of hungry children. One person dies every eight seconds from malnutrition...