Word: matter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Czechs are the unhappiest people in Europe, and their sadness is fresh, tearful and utterly pathetic. One of the few old friends who came to see me came only because, she said, 'I'm in so much trouble already that seeing you doesn't matter.' An Action Committee had put her out of her job with an export firm and her husband had lost his with the Ministry. She had been informed that they would be given new jobs 'according to their physical abilities. Another friend, a professor, tearfully expressed what is perhaps the underlying...
...ideas must emphatically mean that we do not uphold any regime abroad, no matter how corrupt, provided only that it is antiCommunist. At its best such a course would be stupidity, at its worst it would be nihilism. In any event it would simply strengthen the Communist cause. We are not-we must not be-on the horns of a dilemma of which one prong is Communism and the other prong is Fascism...
...Harmless" Civilians? If the war is just, does it matter what means are used to win it? Yes, says the commission: "A surgeon, driven to amputate a foot to save a patient's life, would be blameworthy if he unnecessarily cut off the whole leg." In the same way, a belligerent should seek to damage his enemy as lightly as possible and "shun all acts . . . calculated to breed hatred...
More people, said Petersen, kill themselves, go insane or die of natural causes during April, May and June than at any other time of year. Spring fever is no laughing matter, says Anti-Vernalist Petersen: the human frame, drained of energy and vitamins during the winter, is a pushover for physical and mental ailments. He did not prescribe sulphur & molasses, but to his faithful he offered a further seasonal sentiment: a majority of the world's criminals, and most of its geniuses, were conceived in the spring. Dr. Petersen, 61, was born in March...
...problem is still baffling. No matter how massive the screen (one of the biggest: 65 by 50 ft.), or how super-powerful the water-cooled projection equipment, a good many people have to sit almost a thousand feet from the screen, and have trouble seeing details. The ozoners had not yet found a way around that...