Word: matter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cause of the revolt was a very personal matter. Romero, a scapegrace distinguished by the possession of eleven fingers (double thumb on the left hand), had been sentenced to a 16-year prison term on a charge of raping a local taxi dancer. He sought vengeance on the judge, the prosecutor, the cabaret owner and the taxi dancer. Three hours before his fatal gun battle with MPs at Calapan's airfield, he said to the parish priest: "Bless me, Father, for I will...
Soon after, hard times came; Juan lost his property and died, leaving Juana and the children in poverty. Like most landholders, no matter how small, Juan had been a member of Argentina's Conservative Party. But after his death, his rich friends in the party had little time for Juan's five orphans or their mother. For help, Juana was forced to turn to a local politician of the Radical Party...
...science. [Men involved in such things] are drifting toward Communism, or totalitarianism if you prefer. It is not British; it is not Canadian, and finally it is not Christian. We are asked to give immunities to these people so that they may have the run of the country. No matter what they say or do, they will be above...
...telephone attachment* would transmit the missing key frequencies to his set. Another show could not be tuned in without another paid admission. The system, McDonald predicts, will be operating within a year-barring, of course, legal objections by the Federal Communications Commission, which has not yet considered the matter...
...taken up the slack in the economy so far, were still a big question. Unless bolstered by a U.S. program of foreign aid, such as the Marshall Plan, they were almost certain to collapse by year's end. But Wall Street felt that the aid would come, no matter how pinchpenny Congress now seemed. All this caused the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Sanhedrin of financial theologians, to say in its July report: "While individual commodity prices which got out of line may drop to lower levels, it is thought that the tendency of the overall price...