Word: matter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soon his waiting room is swarming with people, each wanting to buy or sell a dream. As Joe looks into a customer's eyes his technicolored dream is shown on the screen. They are like nothing you've ever seen, unless--but then that's another matter...
With three games gone, Lamar is more sure of his lineup, which so far has been largely a matter of guesswork. Don Cass will probably be promoted to a starting role at end, and Bill Campbell is being brought up from the "B" team to strengthen the backfield...
After receiving no answer from the comedian all week, Russell will send another communication to NBC this morning. He will repeat hie request for the car and will ask Allen to take personal care of the matter...
...weakening of the Commonwealth, which the U.S. would once have welcomed, was now a matter of grave U.S. concern. Who, for example, was now responsible for defense and order in the key strategic areas around the shores of the Indian Ocean? Burma had stepped from the Empire into chaos. Other lands might go the same way. Little to stop them was apparent last week in London...
...shock (electric, insulin or metrazol) is sometimes effectively used to jolt depressed psychotics back to normal. Some psychiatrists admit that electric shock superficially resembles the medieval torture of the insane. (The beatings that the insane used to get, with chains, whips or rods, may actually have helped them, no matter what the intent.) The modern version is applied with more humanity, no more understanding of what makes it work. But patients who are so sick that they cannot talk at all may be able to talk after shock. Psychiatrists try to use such brief lucid periods to start helpful treatment...