Word: matter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...never advocated or taught . . . overthrow of the Government by force or violence at all. All we wanted to do was to bring about certain salutary social reforms, and to do it by a perfectly legitimate party . . . ' That, as I see it, goes right to the heart of the matter...
...dollar areas, after a year of steady climb, turned sharply downward; for the first two months, exports were 13% below the last quarter of 1948. If the trend continues, Britain will still have a dollar deficit when ECAid is stopped in 1952. "It's no longer a matter of production," explained the Board of Trade's President Harold Wilson. "It's now a matter of selling...
Next week the concierges of Paris will hold a mass meeting in protest against the wholesale dismissals, without, of course, giving up what the government had given them. Most Parisians will be staunchly on the side of La Pipelette. No matter how the world's affairs turn out, La Pipelette should be kept there, at her glass door, seeing everything...
...Fannie still worked hard in their little garden, and once in a while they still showed up in church. But no matter how much money they made, they seemed to spend less & less. They never painted their house, never allowed any-repairs. Fannie kept their money tied up in little packages which she hid around the house. When she died in 1930, it took Charley quite a while to find...
...crews to deeds of greater valor before a race; first, because he is not that kind of man, and second because he knows that any boy who has plugged up and down the river for who chilly months is going to give it everything he's got no matter what he tells...