Word: matter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must not allow a weak, incompetent and wavering Administration to bungle us into war." In Milwaukee, where he posed with the leader of the oompah German band, no one missed his jab at MacArthur: "This is not a war crisis-it is a peace crisis. Military genius, no matter how excellent, is not the answer." At Eau Claire, he leaned back against a table and talked with cracker-barrel familiarity to local farmers about mastitis, Bang's disease and silage. He confided: "My prime interest outside of my family and job is my farm...
...boast was not uttered by a Kansas Citian but by a visiting French novelist. When Andre Maurois, in 1946, was teaching a course in biography at the University of Kansas City, he was smitten with Kansas City's beauty. "Who in Europe, or in America for that matter," he asked, "knows that Kansas City is one of the loveliest cities on earth...
Last Detail. Sioux Center's five-man town council ducked the issue, put it up for referendum. Once again, "Satan's tool" lost-by 61 votes. But that did not settle the matter. The Legion's lease ran until April 1, and the town council, which had leased the Town Hall to the Legion, was up for election before then. Meantime, the issue of a municipally owned light plant arose, and Sioux Center's high school team reached the semifinals in the state basketball tournament. In the excitement, the antimovie forces failed to line...
Never before have the attitudes and acts of one nation mattered so much to so many people in the world as every impulse, wish and act of the U.S. will hereafter matter to the Western world. Never before have the attitudes and capacities of so many other nations mattered so much to the U.S. What awaits Americans in the Europe which they have undertaken to preserve, restore, and if need be to defend...
...Yale game was a similar story. Because of the injured players, Harvard has to introduce Al key and Fred Gwynne as ringers and neither had ever played previously. Injuries were held down to a minimum, but the battered Harvard team, no matter how hard they fought, were no match for the heavier Yale squad, fresh from the States. And finally on Sunday there was a repetition at the hands of the B.A.A., with Harvard losing her last two games by the same score...