Word: matter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General Clay gave emphatic evidence that the U.S. was not to be stampeded. Said he: "We are going to continue to fly our airplanes no matter what happens in the air corridors." Then, borrowing a leaf from Soviet tactics, he and his British counterpart issued an order prohibiting the movement of all trains into and out of the Russian zone. The reason: "technical difficulties...
Whether the U.S. and the Russians sat down at a conference table would matter a lot less than whether the U.S. could, in the next few months, assume a bold leadership to get Western Union moving and to work out a German policy that would fit in with Western Union...
...sentries stopped them, demanded passports and press credentials-and the religion of each correspondent. Polk stated flatly that he had no religion. He was not Jewish, nor was he an atheist; he simply regarded the question as insulting to the concept of a free press. He refused, as a matter of principle, to dignify it with an answer. They finally, and very reluctantly, had to let him through...
...peace, the West's ability to act in unison, was demonstrated also in the Palestine truce. Peace had been endangered and the United Nations disgraced by the failure to halt the Palestine war. Finally, U.S. and British policies were brought into line. In a matter of hours after that, the prestige and potency of U.N. returned last week, and the Arabs followed the Jews in accepting a truce in Palestine (see below). The truce in Palestine, the B-29s in Britain, were signs of the same solidarity...
...years ago, he was taking on the town's No. 1 white elephant. When a fire gutted it shortly afterward, his prospects looked even worse. But four years ago this month Hover started up again: the place has been jumpy ever since. It didn't seem to matter what happened to Hollywood-congressional investigations, hirings & firings, falling box office-so long as people could hash it over at Giro...