Word: matter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...White feels he has probed to the heart of the matter by interviewing a score or so of "typical" Germans. Few people in the Third Reich, it seems, were aware of Nazi atrocities. Those who were aware or who were active in perpetrating them, were under the influence of "hysterical mysticism," and now want only to forget the things they did or knew. A very large percentage of the Germans, perhaps even a majority "never did like the son of a bitch, and always said he'd get us into a war," and real Nazis were so scarce that...
Sofia wired, with Bulgar bravado, that it could not be bothered with the continental recovery program because it had a more important matter in train, to wit: "[Bulgaria] has already begun the realization of her own economic plan...
...Work or Want" said the Government's billboards. Last week Herbert Morrison, Deputy Prime Minister, grimly told the House of Commons that no matter how hard Britons work, they will still want...
...mess. He and Marshal Stalin could do it together, Monty felt sure. "Stalin has no time for politicians," he explained to an Australian politician. "He has faith only in generals." Cracked London's Sunday Pictorial: "Monty's slipping. We thought he could handle a little matter like that...
Mind over Matter...